Àngels López 
Application Deadline: 20/12/2017
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The Biosensing for Bioengineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)is looking for a Predoctoral Researcher in order to participate in the project Diabetes Approach by Multi-Organ-on-a-Chip (DAMOC). This position will be funded by the “ERC Starting Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC).
IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group have designed a single-protein electrical contact which can efficiently transfer an electrical charge.Through a subtle mutation in a copper protein which is responsible for various metabolic redox processes in the bacterium Pseudomona aeruginosa, they managed to control the transport of electrons in the biomolecule.
An article by BIOCAT profiles the three winners in Catalonia of the last round of ERC Starting Grants, including IBEC’s Lorenzo Albertazzi.
The website of Faster Future, IBEC’s brand new fundraising programme, is now accepting donations.The initiative, which is being launched this year in time for Giving Tuesday, aims to raise money to help accelerate research projects that are close to tackling major challenges in health.
The money donated via crowdfunding in this first edition will make possible the development of a new solution for muscular dystrophy being developed in Javier Ramon’s Biosensors for Bioengineering group. Their ‘muscle-on-a-chip’ will use a patient’s own cells to study myotonic dystrophy type 1, a progressive disability that begins in adulthood and affects 50,000 people in Spain alone. As well as modelling the patient’s disease in a personalized way, the platform will also allow the study of different drugs or treatments in conditions that mimic the body as closely as possible, as well as offering a more reliable alternative to animal models.
Application Deadline: 10/12/2017
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The Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral candidate. This position will be funded by research Project NANOPROSTHETICS inside State Program of R & D Oriented towards the Challenges of Society (R + D + i Projects) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).
Nanomalaria joint unit group leader Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets is the author of a serialised post on Health ISGlobal, the blog of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
Next week IBEC will launch Faster Future, a new crowdfunding initiative that aims to help accelerate research projects that are close to tackling major challenges in health.This year, Faster Future will be raising money for a new solution for muscular dystrophy being developed in Javier Ramon’s Biosensors for Bioengineering group. Their ‘muscle-on-a-chip’ will use a patient’s own cells to study myotonic dystrophy type 1, a progressive disability that begins in adulthood and affects 50,000 people in Spain alone.
As well as modelling the patient’s disease in a personalized way, the platform will also allow the study of different drugs or treatments in conditions that mimic the body as closely as possible, as well as offering a more reliable alternative to animal models.
Application Deadline: 30/11/2017
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L’Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) requereix incorporar un/-a Tècnic/a Informàtic per la Unitat de Tecnologies de la Informació manté i optimitza els sistemes informàtics de l’Institut, a més de contribuir al bon funcionament de les seves línies de recerca proposant el programari i el maquinari que poden requerir. El/la candidat/a donarà suport als usuaris ens el camp de la computació, telecomunicacions i xarxes, garantint la integritat de la informació emmagatzemada en els diferents sistemes.
Yesterday IBEC group leader Javer Ramon presented his research on developing organ-on-a-chip to study diabetes in IBEC’s public event forming part of this year’s Setmana de la Ciència.About 70 visitors attended the talk in the PCB’s Sala Dolors Aleu where, following a tour of some of IBEC’s laboratory spaces and an introduction to IBEC by Coordinator of Events and Outreach Pilar Jiménez, Javier talked about his 3D biomimetic devices that will integrate technologies to detect glucose consumption and insulin production, as well as other biomarkers related to diabetes.
Javier’s on-a-chip approaches will also be the focus of IBEC’s first Giving Tuesday fundraising campaign on 28th November, when the public will be invited to support the development of a ‘muscle-on-a-chip’ as a model for a common form of muscular dystrophy.
Application Deadline: 21/12/2017
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The Targeted therapeutics and nanodevices group led by Dr. Silvia Muro at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral candidate to work on the design and implementation of strategies for controlled targeting of drug delivery systems to precise disease sites.