“Líders en recerca: Pau Gorostiza, aportant llum a l’activitat cel·lular” (Eng)

An article about BioNanoMed Cat appeared in La Vanguardia’s Dinero supplement on 19 June, in which Josep Samitier and the director general of Biocat, Montserrat Vendrell, explain the aim of the IBEC-led alliance.
Antoni Homs, a postdoc in the Nanobioengineering group, did his bit for the public understanding of science this week by participating in two events in collaboration with the Centre Cultural Sant Josep in Hospitalet.
IBEC group leader Xavier Trepat is the subject of the latest edition of Destacamus, a bimonthly magazine published by Biopol’H which profiles researchers.
In its June edition, El Global, the most prominent journal on the pharmaceutical sector in Spain, features a news item on the IBEC-led alliance BioNanoMed Catalunya, which aims to bring together researchers, hospitals and companies working in nanomedicine.
On Monday 6 June, IBEC will present its activities to biomedical researchers and clinicians from IDIBELL (the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) to kick off an official collaboration agreement between the two institutes.
In today’s edition of Catalan newspaper Ara, IBEC associate director Josep Samitier is interviewed for a full-page feature. In it, he tells journalist Joan García about the history and goals of IBEC, its successes and the challenges it faces.
Biomechanics and mechanobiology group leader Damien Lacroix has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his research on finite element simulations of mechanobiology in tissue engineering.