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September 23, 2015

Reaching out to the public at the Nit Europea de la Recerca

IBEC group leader and ICREA Research Professor Pau Gorostiza will be taking part in the Barcelona version of European Researcher’s Night this Friday, 25th September.

Held at the CCCB, the Nit Europea de la Recerca Barcelona will be in celebration of the Year of Light. At 20:00 Pau will take part in a round table moderated by BIOCAT on the subject of “Humans amb més llum: re-evolució humana gràcies a les noves tecnologies basades en la llum”.

September 25, 2015September 22, 2015

Visit of HT Cluster partners to IBEC

Yesterday IBEC welcomed some of its partners from HT Cluster, a new alliance of industry, research centres and other bodies working in the health technologies sector in Catalonia, through its doors.

IBEC Director Josep Samitier and researchers Elisabeth Engel, Xavier Puñet, Lucas Pedraz, Agustín Gutiérrez and Mateu Pla gave talks to the visitors, who represented some of the businesses and other organizations that form the cluster. Afterwards, Mateu led a tour of IBEC’s facilities.

September 21, 2015

¿Y si todos tuviéramos un corazón de repuesto?

An introduction by IBEC Director Josep Samitier begins a 9-page article in El Pais about the future of organ replacement in light of the advances in 3D printing. As biological materials can now be ‘printed’ as scaffolds that can be used for implants and tissue repair or organs, is the fabrication of entire functioning organs closer than ever?

September 21, 2015

“Un animal teledirigido con ondas sonoras”

IBEC’s Pau Gorostiza is a quoted expert in an El Pais article about research into sonogenetics at the Salk, where researchers have produced worms with genetically modified nervous systems that can be controlled by sound waves.

September 29, 2015September 16, 2015

CaixaImpulse selects two IBEC initiatives to promote tech transfer in science

This morning, the 15 research projects that have been selected for funding under in the first CaixaImpulse call, including two IBEC projects, were presented at the Palau Macaya.

Xavier Puñet, a PhD student in the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, presented Dermoglass, a dressing that stimulates revascularization in chronic wounds such as skin ulcers and promotes the formation of healthy skin. The other IBEC project selected for funding is RNRbiotics led by Eduard Torrents, group leader of the Bacterial infections: antibiotic therapy group, which aims to develop new antimicrobial agents effective against resistant bacterial infections, currently considered as one of the main threats to human health (World Health Organization).

September 8, 2015

Expert in novel drug delivery systems joins IBEC

Dr Lorenzo Albertazzi, a nanoscientist whose research focuses on creating smart self-assembling materials for therapeutic applications, is joining IBEC this September.

Lorenzo, who is coming to Barcelona from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, will set up a laboratory at IBEC to create a molecular ‘toolbox’ of supramolecular biomimetic structures – self-organized or assembled synthetic materials able to mimic the complexity of biological machinery – for applications in nanomedicine and biotechnology, such as transporting drugs into the body or attacking viruses.

September 29, 2015September 3, 2015

IBEC group presents 4th generation biomaterial that mimics bone

IBEC researchers have published a paper in Nanoscale elucidating a brand new biomaterial that paves the way towards a fourth generation of effective structures for tissue regeneration.

The Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group and their collaborators in the Netherlands and Poland describe a hybrid material which faithfully mimics the structure of bone’s extracellular matrix.

September 3, 2015

InsideIBEC issue 9 out now

The latest edition of InsideIBEC, the newsletter of IBEC, is available now.

Inside this issue you’ll find articles about the Severo Ochoa award and other prizes, clinical collaborations, new projects, a roundup of the latest activities and events, HR news, and an overview of IBEC’s major new institutional venture, EIT Health. The newsletter is also a handy guide to upcoming events at the institute, and introduces some of our most recent newcomers.

September 29, 2015August 31, 2015

“Investigadora en Australia”

The Diario de Navarra profiles Eva María Álvarez de Eulate, a former technician in the Nanobioengineering group at IBEC who’s continuing her research career as a postdoc at the University of Curtin in Perth, Australia.

August 24, 2015