Àngels López Application Deadline: 22/04/2018
Ref: PhD-EM
The Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Senior Researcher candidate to work in the project Design of Nanomaterials for Targetted Therapies Guided by super Resolution Imaging. This position will be funded by the “ERC Starting Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC).
IBEC group leaders Pere Roca-Cusachs and Elena Martinez featured in an article in Ara magazine at the weekend that discussed how understanding mechanical forces and their effect on cellular processes can open new avenues in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.
The Executive Council of the Sociedad de Biofísica de España has awarded the 2018 Enrique Pérez-Payá SBE-40 prize to Pere Roca-Cusachs, IBEC group leader and associate professor at the UB, for his outstanding contributions to uncovering the physical basis of cellular responses to mechanical signals.The prize has been awarded every year since 2010 and is in memory of Dr. Enrique Pérez-Payá, who contributed to the development, translation and internationalization of biophysics in Spain.
Pere will deliver a talk and receive his award at the 6th Iberian / 10th Iberoamerican Biophysics Congress in Castellón on 20th-22nd June.
Application Deadline: 30/04/2018
Ref: PhD-EM
The Biomimetic systems for cell engineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Pre-doctoral Researcher candidate to participate in the development of the project “Engineering Complex Intestinal Epithelial Tissue Models” (ERC-Consolidator Grant).
Two projects coordinated by IBEC group leaders have been successful in gaining funding through the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology’s IGNITE call, which promotes the initiation of new collaborations among BIST researchers and accelerate multidisciplinary research.The projects were two of just five that were selected in the 2017 call to be funded through IGNITE’s seed phase. The researchers will have eight months to develop them, after which, in a second phase, an additional award for a further 12 months is given to the two best projects from the five selected during the seed phase.
Observing photosynthesis is at the heart of the Quantum-controlled Single Protein Electron Transport (Q-SPET) project, coordinated by IBEC Group Leader and ICREA research professor Pau Gorostiza and Niek van Hulst at ICFO, which aims to measure quantum effects in photosynthetic protein complexes.
An IBEC group has been awarded EU funding to coordinate a project that aims to train through research a new generation of researchers in bio-orthogonal catalysis for cancer therapy. Thanks to the Marie Curie ITN funding, the twelve consortium members of the THERACAT European Training Network – located in Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and Israel – will be able to provide researchers with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary scientific training in the field of bio-orthogonal catalysis. 
Samuel Sánchez features in a long article in Retina magazine (El País).
Application Deadline: 02/04/2018
Ref: RA-AC
A research assistant is required to support the development of a training test bed in surgical robotics and the design and implementation of mechanical components to interacting with the robotic system .
The Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine group has studied Single-Chain Polymeric Nanoparticles (SCPNs) mimicking enzymes as possible drug activators in biological environments, like the living cell.The bio-inspired nanoparticles could be used to spatially control drug delivery in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
Through their study, published in JACS, the researchers have optimized the delivery strategies of dynamic SCPNs so that they retain their catalytic activity at the cellular environment. This paves the way towards the rational design of nanosystems that can perform effective catalysis in vivo.
Nuria Montserrat features in a long article in Quo magazine.