“9 Materials That Will Change the Future of Manufacturing”
Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.
Àngels López
Looking forward to IBEC’s sixth annual symposium
There’s just over a week to go until IBEC celebrates its sixth annual symposium in bioengineering and nanomedicine.
Measuring signals at the 11th “Recerca en directe” Science Fair
The picture shows masters student Alejandro Calvo and senior researcher Beatriz Giraldo at this week’s “Recerca en directe” science fair in La Pedrera, where IBEC’s Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group are taking part with an activity that helps participants record and process their own biomedical signals.
El laboratori al ‘Connexió’: “El nas electrònic del IBEC” (Eng)
Click on the image (left) to see PhD student Sergio Oller from the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems talking about the group’s research into the development of electronic noses based on the mammalian olfactory system.
“Herramientas para diseñar laboratorios que caben en un chip” (Eng)
In this week’s Diario Medico Special on Diagnostic Therapies, IBEC acting director Josep Samitier’s expert opinion is quoted in an article about lab-on-a-chip technologies.
IBEC a “benchmark in pioneering research projects with great economic potential”
On Friday 12th April IBEC participated in an event and press conference to present the first results of the projects promoted by the five research centres included in the Obra Social ”la Caixa”’s pilot scheme for funding research evaluation and technology transfer.
A miscellany of news and happenings
Several of IBEC’s investigators are taking part in major events and meetings or appearing in the media in the next few days.
“Un cuerpo recambiable” (Eng)
Saturday’s La Vanguardia included a feature in the weekend magazine Es about the recent display in London of the first ‘bionic man’, and the day that draws ever closer when we will be able to replace or regenerate all organs, limbs, body parts or functions of the human body.
Farewell to IBEC’s first director
This morning, IBEC’s now ex-director Josep A. Planell was formally inaugurated as rector of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UoC) at a ceremony at the organisation’s headquarters in Barcelona.
“La mà més precisa d’un cirurgià” (Eng)
