Àngels López
“Mejorar la vida y potenciar empresas” (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.
Where fantasy meets reality
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.
“Nanomedicina: nanotecnologías aplicadas a la salud” (Eng)
An article by IBEC associate director Josep Samitier, ‘Nanomedicina: nanotecnologías aplicadas a la salud’ appears in the latest edition of SEBBM, a periodical published by the Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular.
“Xavier Trepat, investigador principal del Laboratori de Dinàmica Cel·lular i del Teixit de l’IBEC” (Eng)
IBEC group leader Xavier Trepat is the subject of the latest edition of Destacamus, a bimonthly magazine published by Biopol’H which profiles researchers.
“La alianza ‘BioNanoMed Catalunya’ une a 18 empresas e instituciones” (Eng)
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.
Presentation of IBEC activities to IDIBELL
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.
“Volem que el nostre coneixement es traslladi al sector de la salut” (Eng)
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.
ERC Starting Grant for IBEC researcher
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.