Àngels López 
What in today’s world will surprise or horrify our grandchildren in 50 years time? La Vanguardia’s weekend Magazine raised this question with nine “prominent people from different fields”.
IBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez was the subject of La Vanguardia’s “Big Vang questionnaire”.
Yesterday at a ceremony at MINECO in Madrid, IBEC Director Josep Samitier received IBEC’s Severo Ochoa Excellence Award. Presented to him by Secretary of State Carmen Vela, the prestigious €4m award represents Spain’s recognition of IBEC as an international reference in its field.
The ceremony also awarded the other Severo Ochoa winner in this round, the Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), as well as the winners of the Maria de Maeztu prize, a MINECO award for smaller centres.
Check out Banco Sabadell’s fantastic video about IBEC’s Xavi Trepat, winner of their Award for Biomedical Research 2015.
Pau Gorostiza is quoted in an article in El Pais about some recent work on Germany on light-controlled cancer drugs.
IBEC researchers have revealed the role played by the cellular prion protein (PrPC) – which is associated with a plethora of biological functions including cell proliferation, differentiation and signaling – in epilepsy.In the latest edition of Scientific Reports, a Nature group journal, the Molecular and Cellular Neurobiotechnology group and their collaborators outline findings that could lead to a better understanding of rapid neurodegenerative diseases that involve epileptic fits, such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD).
Elisabeth Engel and George Altanvkov appear in the latest video produced by the Israeli partner of EuroNanoMed, the Chief Scientist Office of the country’s Ministry of Health (CSO-MOH), “Success stories funded by EurNanoMed2”.
IBEC is a key player in a new network of organizations working together to exploit Big Data from life and food sciencesMonday saw the launch of the Associació Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB), a network of 25 members including universities, research centres, hospitals, major scientific facilities, and pharmaceutical, technology and and bioinformatics companies, which aims to respond to the challenges posed by the growth of big data and position Barcelona as a world leader in bioinformatics.
On 30 June the rtve science programme Lab24 featured an interview with new IBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez, who describes his research on micro and nanomotors.
IBEC alumnus Javier G. Fernandez, who was visiting to give a seminar last week, was featured in an article about new materials inspired by insects in Catalan magazine ARA this weekend.