IBEC als mitjans

IBEC’s junior group leader Nuria Montserrat appeared on RTVE’s channel 1 programme Saber Vivir earlier this month, when they had an episode devoted to kidney disease and research.

In a brief interview filmed at IBEC, Nuria explained the two pillars of her current research: to create viable kidney cells in the lab that can be implanted in vivo, and to study the signals that are necessary to encourage the kidney to regenerate itself.

The March edition of Time Out Barcelona (English version) features IBEC’s spin-off, Rob Surgical Systems, in an article about technology in Barcelona.

Pau Gorostiza and his work on photoswitchable peptides features in an article in the February edition of C&I Magazine, a monthly science and business magazine published by SCI.

IBEC Director Josep Samitier is the subject of a full-page article in El Periodico this week, in a series the paper is running about Barcelona notables in relation to their neighbourhoods.

In the article, journalist Carme Escales accompanies Josep to some of his favourite and most formative places in Les Corts.

New IBEC group leader Nuria Montserrat is featured in an article in El Mundo today.

The story discusses her ERC grant, the work she has been doing generating “mini-kidneys” from human pluripotent stem cells, and how she will continue this important line of research at IBEC.

IBEC group leader and director of CMRB Ángel Raya is featured as one of four researchers making notable advances in regenerative medicine in a story in Diario Medico today

The article includes interviews with researchers from New York, Munich and Rome, who alongside Ángel attended a conference organised by the Areces Foundation and the Nature Group last week in Madrid.

Today El Mundo features a short article about IBEC’s involvement in the European project Plantoid, which aims aims to design and develop robots inspired by plants.

El nou investigador principal del IBEC, Samuel Sánchez, apareix avui en dos articles a El Mundo i a El Periodico parlant sobte la seva carrera, les seves noves metes al IBEC i sobre la feina que continuarà fent aquí en l’àmbit dels micro- i nanomotors.

El passat divendres l’IBEC va aparèixer a les notícies del migdia de TV3 a un reportatge sobre la capacitat de Barcelona per a atraure investigadors estrangers i sobre com el Barcelona Centre Universitari ajuda als nouvinguts amb l’idioma, l’administració, el networking i els aspectes legals.

Avui, a La Vanguardia (izquierda) i el portal Interempresas.net informenn que Rob Surgical Systems, l’empresa spin-off del IBEC / UPC, ha començat la validació de Bitrack, el seu sistema robòtic quirúrgic per a la cirurgía laparoscòpica de mínima invassió.

Amb l’objectiu d’abordar les deficiències actuals de la cirurgia laparoscòpica, el robot ha estat dissenyat sota la direcció tècnica del Dr. Josep Amat (UPC) i el grup de Robòtica Alícia Casals (IBEC), amb la direcció mèdica del Dr. Javier Magriñá de la Clínica Mayo d’Arizona, un expert en robots quirúrgics Da Vinci.