Àngels López, Author at Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

April 1, 2019March 7, 2019

Postdoc position at the Smart Nano-Bio-Devices Research Group – ERC funded project

Application Deadline: 28/03/2019
Ref: PD-SS
The nanodevices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for one Postdoctoral researcher to participate in the ERC-funded project “Lab-in-a-patch for PKU self-assessment”. The main scientific aim of the project is the development of low cost, integrated, and portable sensors or on-chip microfluidic sensors for the non-invasive detection of disease-related bio-analytes (proteins, amino acids, electrolytes, etc.) and help monitor the evolution of pathological conditions.

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019

A new technique allows researchers to focus the action of drugs via infrared light

A scientific team led by IBEC and UAB manages to efficiently activate molecules located inside cell tissues using two-photon excitation of with infrared light lasers. The results of the study has been published in Nature Communications.

Having absolute control of the activity of a molecule in an organism. Deciding when, where and how a drug is activated. These are some of the goals expected to be reached with the so-called photoswitchable molecules, compounds that, in the presence of certain light waves, change their properties. Today, thanks to the results of a study led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) together with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the scientific community is one step closer to achieving this objective.

March 22, 2019March 1, 2019

Tècnic de Laboratori (Ref. TL-IO)

Application Deadline: 15/03/2019
Ref: TL-IO

L’Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) requereix incorporar un/-a tècnic/-a de laboratori per a les MicroFab & Microscopy Facilities , part de la unitat de Core Facilities de l’IBEC, que te la funció de proporcionar serveis i suport diaris als usuaris de sala blanca on es fabriquen i caracteritzen microdispositius i estructures per a aplicacions biomèdiques, i suport un servei de caracterització per microscòpia SEM i confocal.

May 28, 2020February 28, 2019

Urea-powered nanomotors a promising therapy for bladder cancer

IBEC’s Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group have published a paper describing nanomotors that can attack 3D bladder cancer spheroids in vitro.

The nanomotors carry anti-FGFR3 on their outer surface, an antibody that not only enables cancerous cells to be specifically targeted, but also inhibits the fibroblast growth factor signaling pathway, suppressing tumor growth. Crucially, the fuel that gives the nanomotors the capability of autonomous motion is urea, which is present at high concentrations in the bladder – making these particular nanomotors a promising avenue for this particular cancer.

May 29, 2020February 25, 2019

Pere Roca winner of EBSA Young Investigator’s Prize

Pere Roca-Cusachs, group leader at IBEC and assistant professor at the University of Barcelona, has won the 2019 Young Investigator Prize for his contributions to the field of mechanobiology. The award is given by the European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA).

EBSA association grants this prize every two years. The last winner of the prize was Philipp Kukura from the University of Oxford in the UK in 2017. The prize recognises an investigator who has defended his thesis 12 years ago or less across Europe and awards him with 2000€ and a medal as well as be expected to contribute an article to the European Biophysics Journal.

May 29, 2020February 21, 2019

Mechanobiology of Cancer Summer School 2019

The MECHANO·CONTROL consortium, led by several research institutions across Europe, is launching a Summer School that will be taking place between 17-20 of September 2019 at the Eco Resort in La Cerdanya. The aim of the summer school is to provide training on mechanobiology, and specifically its application to breast cancer.

This school will include lectures as well as practical workshops in different techniques and disciplines, ranging from modelling to biomechanics to cancer biology. There will be scientific sessions in the morning, mixing 6 keynote speakers with 18 short talks selected from abstract submissions by junior scientists attending the school. In the afternoon, there will be 2-3-hour practical workshops, given by scientists from the MECHANO·CONTROL consortium. The course will also include leisure activities.

March 1, 2019February 20, 2019

Research Assistant at the Microbial biotechnology and host-pathogen interaction Research Group

Application Deadline: 25/02/2019
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The Microbial biotechnology and host-pathogen interaction group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Research assistant to assist for an eventual tasks on the projects: Structure and function of bacterial proteins that modulate virulence expresión, Bacterial plasmids and their role in transmission of multidrug resistance markers and Application of nanotools of bacterial biotechnology.

March 1, 2019February 19, 2019

Postdoc at the Pluripotency for organ regeneration Research Group

Application Deadline: 24/02/2019
Ref: PD-NM

The Pluripotency for organ regeneration group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to develop his/her project on the development of a Modelling Diabetic Nephropathy targeting DNA methylation: engineering the epigenome in kidney” funded by the EFSD/Boehringer Ingelheim European Research Programme in Microvascular Complications of Diabetes.

May 28, 2020February 18, 2019

IBEC researchers generate mini-kidneys vascularized from stem cells

Researchers from the IBEC have created, for the first time, 3D organoid cultures from pluripotent stem cells, which resemble human embryonic kidney tissue during the second trimester of pregnancy.

Using biomaterials that mimic the embryonic microenvironment, researchers have also achieved mini-kidneys with relevant features for immediate use in renal disease modeling.
A study published today in Nature Materials reports how researchers from IBEC have created organoids, or mini-organs, that resemble the human embryonic kidney, and how these 3D cultures mimic essential aspects during the formation of the kidney, such as distribution, functionality and specific organization of cells.

March 1, 2019February 18, 2019

Postdoc at the Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Research Group

Application Deadline: 24/02/2019
Ref: POST-LA

The Nanoscopy for nanomedicine group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to develop project on the development of a new probes for super resolution imaging.