Àngels López, Author at Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

January 31, 2017

Light-regulated drugs as analgesics

A new study involving scientists from IBEC, IQAC/CSIC and CNRS in France uses light-regulated drugs to alleviate the negative emotions associated with chronic pain.

Chronic pain is pain that lasts more than six months. Its origin can be both physiological and emotional, and it is accompanied by symptoms such as hypersensitivity, anxiety and depressive behavior. It has no cure, treatment is difficult, and current drugs don’t alleviate the symptoms.

January 30, 2017January 20, 2017

New DNA-based technique for depositing materials with a resolution of less than 10 nanometers

A study led by CSIC and involving IBEC researchers proposes a new technique using molecules ‘a la carte’ to obtain nanoscale surfaces that will have many useful applications in microelectronics and biomedicine. The work has been published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The new method means that researchers can obtain nanoscale surfaces with many molecules arranged in an ordered way.

June 17, 2020January 20, 2017

Training the next generation of advanced microscopy experts

An IBEC group has been awarded EU funding to coordinate a project that aims to train a new generation of researchers in the science and technology of Scanning Probe Microscopes.

Thanks to the Marie Curie ITN funding, the ten consortium members of the SPM2.0 European Training Network – located in Spain, France, Austria, the UK and Italy – will be able to provide researchers with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary scientific training in the field of Scanning Probe microscopies, covering basic science to industrial applications, which should enable them to generate new scientific knowledge.

February 6, 2017January 17, 2017

Technician Position in Nanobioengineering

Application Deadline: 25/01/2017
Ref: JS-MP

The Nanobioengineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Technician Position.

January 16, 2017

“El IBEC investiga las fuerzas mecánicas que se desatan en los tumores”

The recent news about Pere Roca-Cusachs’ MECHANOCONTROL, the largest European project ever coordinated at IBEC, was reported in La Vanguardia last week.

January 11, 2017

€7m project awarded to IBEC to develop therapeutic approaches for cancer and other diseases

January 2017 sees the start of the largest European project ever coordinated at IBEC, Pere Roca-Cusachs’ MECHANOCONTROL, which aims to come up with new therapeutic or diagnostic approaches for cancer and other diseases.

Funded under Horizon 2020’s FET Proactive programme, which helps new research communities to be developed by encouraging researchers from different disciplines to work together, MECHANOCONTROL will focus on understanding and controlling how cells transmit and detect mechanical forces.

February 6, 2017January 5, 2017

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomimetic Systems for cell engineering

Application Deadline: 25/01/2017
Ref: BS-EM

The Biomimetic Systems for cell engineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to participate in the development of the project “Engineering Complex Intestinal Epithelial Tissue Models” (ERC-Consolidator Grant).

January 2, 2017

PIONER award for IBEC student

Former IBEC PhD student Ariadna Bartra has been awarded a Premi PIONER from CERCA.

The Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group’s student’s thesis, ‘Detecció d’estats inadequats per la conducció d’un vehicle a partir de la degradació del control dinàmic’, was selected for its “direct applicability and market-minded approach, as well as its impact on improving road safety”, according to the judging panel. Her research carried out in Santiago Marco’s group was connected to the driver drowsiness alerter developed by IBEC and the company Ficosa.

June 17, 2020December 22, 2016