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Àngels López

On International Open Access Week, IBEC is launching its virtual Open Science space

Taking advantage of the renewal of its website, IBEC has created a new virtual space dedicated to Open Science. This space is a public demonstration of IBEC’s commitment to Open Science, in accordance with its own values ​​and mission, which has been realized with various initiatives and positions that the new virtual space gathers and … Read more

THERACAT Project: hitting cancer bull’s-eye 

Researchers from the European project THERACAT, coordinated by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), have been working for the last four years in developing new strategies to treat cancer in a local manner. By using nanoparticles that can transform a non-active pro-drug into an active drug, they went some steps further in the development … Read more

Tribute to Josep A. Planell, “much more than the anniversary celebration of a friend, mentor, colleague”  

With these words Josep Samitier inaugurated last week the tribute event to Josep A. Planell, one of the founders and first director of IBEC, for a whole life dedicated to science. The event, which was hold at the Alimara Hotel at Barcelona, counted with the participation of numerous friends and colleagues that wanted to accompany … Read more

Symposium at the Hotel Alimara

On Wednesday 19th October I attended the 15th IBEC Bioengineering Symposium. It was a good opportunity to meet many people with whom we have met virtually and with whom we have pending meetings. Many of the presentations revealed to me many projects still unknown to me at IBEC. It was the moment to decide to narrow the study frame of the fieldwork and to be aware that I cannot get to know all the research groups in depth. Research must be prioritized.

15th IBEC Symposium in the media

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) appears in “el Periódico” for the celebration of the 15th edition of the IBEC Symposium. Salvador Macip, doctor and researcher at the University of Leicester and the UOC, has chronicled the event under the slogan “Bioengineering for active aging”. In it, he shows IBEC as an example to … Read more

Bioengineering for active ageing: IBEC Symposium arrives to its 15th edition

IBEC’s 15th Symposium was held the last 19th of October,   with the presence of all IBEC community and some national and international invited researchers from the bioengineering field. The focus of this year’s symposium was one of the three pillars of IBEC research: active ageing. Fortunately, after two years of online events due to pandemic … Read more

Organoids to create “mini-brains”

IBEC principal investigator Núria Montserrat, appears in the media for a new breakthrough with organoids by Sergiu Pașca of Stanford University in California and his team. This new method, published in the journal Nature, shows brain tissue derived from human stem cells was integrated into the brains of newborn rats, influencing behavior. “The study represents … Read more

Corridors/labs/meetings

The number of meetings with scientists is increasing. Right now, good orientation is very necessary to find the labs and offices of the research groups in the long corridors of the IBEC. It’s time to familiarize myself with the specific scientific vocabulary of each group and understand the work processes they use.