IBEC participates in 1st CERCA Conference
Today the 1st CERCA Conference brought together its 46 research centres at the new Centre Cultural in the former Mercat del Born.
Year: 2014
Sounds of health
A new acoustic method for better diagnosis in patients with diaphragmatic paralysis
A PLOS ONE article by researchers from the joint unit IBEC, the Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) and the Pneumology Service at Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital describes the acoustic analysis of pulmonary sound intensity as a non-invasive, more objective, easier and cheaper method to improve diagnostics in unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis.
IBEC advisor to EC and Horizon 2020 under RO-cKETs study
Institute’s nano-bio-info-cogno expertise to determine medical and pharma products of the future
Generalitat’s education event held at IBEC
IBEC welcomed members of the Generalitat’s Department of Education and about 150 teachers through its doors yesterday evening, when the Department held its event ‘Presentació del Programa de Competències Científiques’ in a research institute for the first time.
“Science advances towards light-activated drugs”
An article about, and interview with, Pau Gorostiza appears in El Periódico today, talking about his work on light-activated drugs.
Faster and more accurate testing for causes of lower respiratory tract infections
Research and industry collaboration develops miniature diagnostic platform for respiratory infections such as pneumonia and infectious bronchitis
Featured on the cover of the latest issue of Lab on a Chip
IBEC to take part in excellence programme for teacher training
IBEC is one of the 13 research centres to be chosen to take part in Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera’s 2014 edition of Professors i Ciència, an excellence programme for the specialized training for secondary school science teachers.
IBEC winner to give address at RecerCaixa ceremony
At Friday 28th March’s official ceremony for the 2013 round of RecerCaixa funding, IBEC junior group leader Elisabeth Engel will represent all the winners and centres as the investigator chosen to speak at the event.
“Hello, robot”
IBEC group leaders Alícia Casals and Santiago Marco feature in a Sunday supplement about robots in La Vanguardia this week.
Helping the brain rebuild itself
A new strategy in regenerative medicine could promote recovery from damage
Tissue regeneration researchers at IBEC, UB and the UPC have developed an implant that could aid the regeneration of brain tissue, particularly in cases of pre- and postnatal injury.