Foregrounding justice, equity and inclusion as determinants of access to precision medicine: an ethical case study of patient-derived tissue organoids. Dr. Ubaka Ogbogu, Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law from the University of Alberta, Canada. Ubaka Ogbogu is a Professor and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Law. ... Read more
Mimicking Sarcolemmal Damage In vitro: A 3D Skeletal Muscle Model for Drug Testing in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Ainoa Tejedera Villafranca, Biosensors for bioengineering group Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most prevalent neuromuscular disease diagnosed in childhood. It is a progressive and wasting disease, characterized by a degeneration of skeletal and cardiac muscles caused by ... Read more
Modeling immune-cancer interactions using a microfluidic 3D culture approach Charles Baroud, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France Lab head at Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Cancer immunotherapy is emerging as a transformative approach for treating cancer patients. This approach, which has shown some remarkable successes, leverages the patient's own immune cells to locate and attack the tumor ... Read more
A celebration of three decades of cell biophysics research in Barcelona The Barcelona area is currently recognized as an important hub for the scientific field of mechanobiology, and of cell biophysics in general. This achievement is due to the work over decades of local scientists. Among them, Prof. Daniel Navajas stands out as a pioneer in the field, before it was ... Read more
On May 6th, Roser Cussó, the artist in residence at IBEC, will be offering a scientific illustration workshop designed for participants of all ages (starting from 7 years old). This is an open session available to everyone, where you will have the chance to explore the creative process that Roser followed during her project "Laboratori ... Read more
This event is open to all undergraduate and master students interested in a research career. The day is a chance for you to talk to our researchers and ask them questions about their day-to-day work in the lab, career paths, work-life balance, mobility etc. In 2022 IBEC signed more than 165 internship agreements for Undergraduate ... Read more
Cellular footprints : examples of emergent memory effects in cell migration. Raphael Voituriez, Laboratoire Jean Perrin / Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée CNRS / Sorbonne Université Living cells actively migrate in their environment to perform key biological functions—from unicellular organisms looking for food to single cells such as fibroblasts, leukocytes or cancer ... Read more
Making Science Work for Refugees and Refugees Work for Science Prof Anthony J. Ryan, OBE, University of Sheffield, UK At Zaatari refugee camp, 80,000 people face daily struggles that many of us cannot imagine are squeezed into six square kilometres. With highly qualified jobs at home, they are forcibly unemployed at the camp but embody ... Read more
30 DE MAYO DE 2023 · INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III La jornada «Innovación multidisciplinar en medicina personalizada» es un evento organizado en el marco del Plan Complementario de Biotecnología aplicada a la Salud. Durante el evento se presentarán las principales líneas de trabajo del Plan, que abarcan temas que van desde el uso y ... Read more
Protein interactions gone awry in neurodegenerative disease Danny Hatters, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences The University of Melbourne, Australia The Hatters lab studies impacts of protein misfolding and aggregation in cultured cell models of neurodegenerative diseases. We have developed approaches to examine principles governing how proteins inappropriately ... Read more