Àngels López 
The B·Debate event ‘Nanotechnologies in Health: Current Challenges and Future Prospects’, organised by ICN and IBB in collaboration with IBEC, UABCEI and Nanonica, is taking place at CosmoCaixa this week.
Today, experts in nanomedicine from all over the world convened to discuss the state-of-the-art of the field at the 2nd UAB Campus d’Excel·lència Internacional (CEI) Workshop on Nanomedicine.
Founding director of IBEC Josep A. Planell appears in La Vanguardia‘s Tendencias section yesterday in an interview by journalist Maite Gutiérrez.
Residents of Barcelona’s Sant Antoni district learnt all about robotics yesterday evening at ‘Ens envaeixen els robots!’, a talk given by the Robotic’s group’s Xavier Giralt at the Biblioteca Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver.
The October cover of Current Opinion in Cell Biology (the reference opinion journal in cell biology, with impact factor 12) features research by IBEC’s Pere Roca and Xavier Trepat, who together with Raimon Sunyer from the UB have published a review paper in the issue, “Mechanical guidance of cell migration: lessons from chemotaxis”.
IBEC senior researcher Mateu Pla is one of the first class of just 12 fellows chosen for the first Design Health Barcelona (d·HEALTH Barcelona) higher education programme, which starts this week.
Josep A. Planell, founding director of IBEC, was presented with the European Society of Biomaterials’ prestigious George Winter prize at their annual conference held in Madrid on Tuesday.
The latest cover of Nature Materials was designed by IBEC PhD student Xavier Serra and shows a real tissue segmented computationally to give the impression of a Gaudinian trencadís.
IBEC researchers have come up with a groundbreaking new approach to create a tough, biodegradable, bioactive and entirely new material, heralding a major milestone in the production of artificial matrices for tissue engineering.In a letter published today in the Royal Society journal Interface, the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group describes a new, easy and cheap method for producing glass-coated fibrous scaffolds which not only faithfully mimic the extracellular matrix of bone, but also aim to direct stem cell fate through physical and chemical interactions.
Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group leader Pau Gorostiza was the subject of a feature last week in La Vanguardia‘s Sunday magazine “Diners”.