Sniffing out terrorists
The Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet programme on 28 November featured a report about the LOTUS project, of which IBEC group leader Santiago Marco is a partner.
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Funding success for two IBEC projects
Two IBEC-led tissue regeneration projects have been selected for funding by the EU’s ERA-NET EuroNanoMed initiative.
Prize for arts and science project
An arts and science initiative involving IBEC and Barcelona’s Arts Santa Mònica centre, which took place earlier this year, has been awarded the Antoni Caparros Prize for Best Knowledge Transfer from the University of Barcelona.
La Marató de TV3 2010 funds awarded
The 55 researchers who received funding from fundraising programme La Marató de TV3 2010, including IBEC’s Pau Gorostiza, attended a ceremony at the UAB last Wednesday where the grants were awarded in the presence of Minister of Health Boi Ruiz, Rector of the UAB Ana Ripoll, and La Marató de TV3 founder Enrique Marin.
Robotics on the TV
On 23 October, IBEC’s Robotics lab was featured in an episode of ‘Emprendedores e innovadores’ on TVE2, when visiting masters student Paloma Fuentes gave viewers a tour of the robot kitchen with the help of IBEC PhD student Manuel Vinagre (pictured).
IBEC Picture Release: “The dance of the cells: a minuet or a mosh?”
This image, which features on the November cover of the high-impact journal Trends in Cell Biology, illustrates work by researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), who collaborated with Harvard investigators earlier this year to come up with a brand new concept in biology, plithotaxis.
IBEC students’ PhD programmes get top billing
The Spanish Ministry of Education has published the list of doctoral programmes that have received the accreditation of “Mention of Excellence”. Among them were all the main doctoral programmes open to IBEC PhD students from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC).
Robotics on the radio
Robotics group leader Alicia Casals will be interviewed on the Catalunya Ràdio programme “El Café de la República” on Thursday 3rd November at 22:00. This popular evening programme discusses the news of the day and the ‘hot topics’ of the moment.
4th IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine
Last week’s fourth annual IBEC symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine at the Hospital de Bellvitge attracted a record number of attendees, with more than a third coming from outside the institute. Experts in the various fields of IBEC’s research areas gathered to network and listen to the top-class speakers from Europe and beyond at the event on 18-19 October.
OCATT conference on cardiac and vascular disease
