Àngels López The bioengineer Alícia Casals, group leader of the robotics research program at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) will be recognized for her work as a research scientist in the “16 Científiques Catalanes” exhibition being organized by the Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica.
Catalonia and the French regions of the Grand Sud-Ouest, the Auvergne, and the Rhône Alpes are well known for their cutting-edge projects in the clinical application of nanotechnology in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The clinical and technological researchers in this area have created a collaboration network, and a number of teams are working together on pluridisciplinary projects.
IBEC has co-organized an international workshop in Montpellier, France, to enhance the cooperation of Spanish and French scientists in the research of new applications for the cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The control of stem cell potency is the line of research most recently incorporated into the IBEC program under the leadership of Ángel Raya, a research professor at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). This project, which represents an expansion of the institute’s work in the field, now forms part of IBEC’s Cellular Biotechnology research program.
The supply of oxygen and nutrients from capillaries as well as the mechanical stimuli transmitted to cells are critical factors that influence tissue differentiation. The effect of these two factors can be investigated using mechanobiological computational models.The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Science and Innovation Network and the Spanish Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (Nanomed Spain) have organized the UK-Iberia Nanomedicine Workshop. The meeting will be host at the British Embassy in Madrid on Dec 10th and 11th.
The discovery of a new function of the cellular prion protein (PrPc) improves the understanding of epilepsy.
Surprisingly, in both cases, the central nervous excitability threshold is altered to such an extent that an epileptic seizure may result. Thanks to this discovery, we now have more tools at our disposal that can help us to deepen our basic understanding of epilepsy.
The Second China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine, hosted by IBEC, takes place in Barcelona from 16 to 20 November.