Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

Reformant l’avaluació de la recerca per afavorir la qualitat i l’impacte científic
2025-07-17 09:30 - 13:30 (Europe/Madrid) | Auditori Antoni Caparrós, PCB, Tower D, c/Baldiri Reixac 4-8, Barcelona, Spain
Hi ha un gran consens entre la comunitat investigadora en general sobre la necessitat de reformar les pràctiques d’avaluació de la recerca. L’avaluació de la recerca, els investigadors i les organitzacions de recerca han de reconèixer els diversos resultats, pràctiques i activitats que maximitzen la qualitat i l’impacte de la recerca. Això, requereix basar l’avaluació principalment en dades qualitatives, per al qual la revisió per parells és central, recolzada per l’ús responsable d’indicadors quantitatius.
Per avançar cap a aquesta reforma de l’avaluació de la recerca, ja hi ha diferents iniciatives. Entre elles, CoARA, la Coalició per a l’Avenç de l’Avaluació de la Recerca.
Es tracta d’un esforç col·lectiu en què totes les institucions, des de les universitats, les organitzacions de recerca fins a les agències avaluadores i els finançadors, han de treballar juntes.
En aquest workshop aprendrem de les experiències de diferents institucions en la implementació dels principis CoARA i discutirem com podem avançar cap a un sistema de recerca d’avaluació més just i impactant.
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SEMIT 2025. First conference of the Spanish Society of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering
2025-10-02 08:00 - 2025-10-03 17:00 | Auditori Antoni Caparrós, PCB, Tower D, c/Baldiri Reixac 4-8, Barcelona, Spain
The Spanish Society of Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (SEMIT) was founded as a society in 2024 to address the need to advance the development and application of these promising fields in Spain .
The inaugural SEMIT 2025 Congress, held on October 2-3, 2025, at the Parc Científic de Barcelona, will mark the beginning of a leading platform for knowledge exchange among researchers, clinicians, and companies in the field. This event will bring together prominent national and international experts to di scuss the latest advances and challenges in bioengineering, advanced biomaterials, biofabrication and many others, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and the transfer of technology into clinical practice. In addition, this year we will count with the attendance of four internationally recognized plenary speakers: Abhay Pandit, Maria Pau Ginebra, Manuel Salmerón and Aitziber Cortajarena.
Be part of the future of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering and become a member of the society. Join SEMIT 2025 and connect with the community that is transforming science into real solutions for health.
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NET QUASI. Workshop 2 : Mimicking and Reprogramming Life: From Synthetic Cells and Active Matter to Smart Therapeutics
2025-10-10 09:20 - 15:00 | Baobab room, Floor 11, Tower 1
9:20 – Registration
9:30 – Opening — Nina Kostina

Session chair: Nina Kostina
09:40 – Keynote speaker: Prof. Bert Poolman (University of Groningen, NL) “Synthetic, out-of-equilibrium cell-like systems for directing reaction networks and maintaining homeostasis”
10:30 – Dr. Rosa Martinez-Corral (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain) “Context-dependency in gene regulation”
11:05 – Prof. Marino Arroyo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Title pending
11:40 – Dr. Mohit Kumar (University of Barcelona) “Active Phospholipid Vesicle as Cellular Membrane Mimic”
12:15 – Coffee break

Session chair: David Esporrín Ubieto
12:45 – Keynote speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Battaglia (IBEC, Barcelona, Spain) “Mimicking biological emergent properties for biomaterial design: principles and applications”
13:30 – Carles Prado (IBEC, Barcelona, Spain) “Crossing the Skin Barrier: A New Role for Enzymatic Nanobots”

14:00 – Closing remarks

18th IBEC annual Symposium
2025-10-16 08:00 - 2025-10-17 17:00 | AXA Auditorium, L'illa Diagonal, Av. Diagonal 547 , Barcelona, 08029
The 18th IBEC annual Symposium brings together high-profile international experts for an open forum for interdisciplinary discussions and networking. This year the symposium is dedicated to Bioengineering for precision medicine, one of IBEC’s three major application areas.
All scientific community is invited to participate. Attendees from IBEC and abroad are welcome to present their research or projects in poster format. Moreover, some of these contributions will be selected by the scientific committee for an oral flash presentation.
This year, the Symposium will also have a day exclusively dedicated to posters. The 16th of October the Symposium will be celebrated at the AXA Auditorium. The poster session will be celebrated the day after, 17th of October at Sant Pau Recinte Modernista.

NET-CNS. Workshop 2: Neuroengineering: Input-Output Interfaces and Interventions
2025-10-23 09:00 - 16:00 | Baobab room, Floor 11, Tower 1
IBEC’s Bioengineering Approaches to Understand, Model, and Modify Healthy and Pathological central nervous system CNS Network (NET-CNS) brings together IBEC researchers to explore cutting-edge developments in CNS research — from fundamental studies to innovative therapeutic strategies. This initiative promotes interdisciplinary efforts to address CNS diseases and conditions and explore new therapeutic avenues.

This second workshop on October 23th will focus on emerging neurotechnologies to interface with the CNS, including innovative strategies to record, stimulate, and modulate neural activity for both fundamental research and therapeutic interventions. The event will feature three lectures by leading experts:

John Rogers (Northwestern University, Chicago) developing flexible and bio-integrated electronic devices to monitor health, interface with the nervous system, and advance medical therapies.
Josep Maria Font Llagunes (Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (IRIS-UPC), Barcelona) developing computational methods for the analysis and prediction of human movement, innovative robotic exoskeletons and wearable monitoring technology.
Aureli Soria-Frisch (Starlab, Barcelona), Director of Neuroscience at Starlab, a deep tech company that develops wireless platforms and AI tools to find biomarkers to diagnose and treat brain disorders, with applications ranging from neurodevelopment to cognitive decline in aging.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leading experts in this field and explore groundbreaking CNS research!

When? Thursday 23/10/2025·09:00h – 16:00 h
Where? Baobab room

Registration is mandatory!
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Workshop held in the framework of the IBEC Thematic Networks.

Programme
09:00 – Registration
09:20 – Welcome from Network Coordinator
09:30 – IBEC speaker: Nicolò Accanto, Nonlinear Photonics for Neuroscience Group, ” Advanced Two-Photon Microscopy for Decoding Neuronal Circuits “
10:00 – Invited speaker: John Rogers, Northwestern University, Chicago, “Bioelectronic Systems as Neural Interfaces”
11:00 – Coffee Break and Networking
11:30 – Invited Speaker: Aureli Soria-Frisch, Starlab, Barcelona, “From Starlab to Neuroelectrics, a neurotechnology transfer success case”
12:30 – IBEC speaker: Mònica Mir, “Integrated sensors in humanized models on a chip to study neurodegeneration”
13:00 – Lunch Break
14:15 – Invited speaker: Josep M. Font-Llagunes, “From Biomechanics to Clinical Impact: Exoskeleton and Monitoring Technologies in Neurorehabilitation”
15:15 – IBEC speaker: Silvia Pittolo, Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, “Exploiting new technologies to read and control brain cells and circuits in real time”
15:45 – End of the Workshop

Abstracts of the plenary talks will be available here (Network programme).

Innovations in High-Plex, Single-Cell and Spatial Targeted-Proteomics
2025-10-28 09:30 - 14:30 | Auditori Antoni Caparrós, PCB, Tower D, c/Baldiri Reixac 4-8, Barcelona, Spain
In a joint effort to advance proteomics research, Standard BioTools and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) are proud to present the symposium “Innovations in High-Plex, Single-Cell and Spatial Targeted-Proteomics”, which will take place on the morning of October 28, 2025, at the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB Auditorium).
This seminar will feature in-depth presentations from leading experts and industry professionals, showcasing how high-plex proteomic and cytometric technologies are driving progress in translational research.
Attendees will explore:

How high-dimensional flow cytometry enables deep immune profiling at the single-cell level

How Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) reveals spatial tissue organization and cellular interactions

How high-throughput proteomics and antibody profiling are unlocking new opportunities in biomarker discovery and disease mechanism studies

These innovative tools are already being integrated into a wide range of clinical and preclinical projects — come and discover how they are shaping the future of precision medicine.
The agenda includes expert talks on these core technologies and their applications, featuring a guest lecture by Jolanda Sarno from the Tettamanti Research Center, and will conclude with a panel Q&A session and a networking lunch to foster collaboration and exchange among participants.

Thematic Network. NET-QUASI Workshop 3: Designing Life-like Function
2025-11-21 09:20 - 16:20 | Sala Dolors Aleu, Cluster II, Parc Científic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Part of the IBEC Thematic Network “Quasi-living systems: Merge and Emerge” (NET-QUASI), this third workshop explores how life-like function can be designed into synthetic and hybrid systems. By merging molecular, material, and biological approaches, researchers are uncovering how responsiveness, adaptability, and collective behavior emerge across scales—from molecular assemblies and delivery systems to tissues that sense and reorganize.
This session gathers leading voices in synthetic biology, materials science, and mechanobiology to discuss how bridging the living and synthetic worlds can inspire a new generation of functional, adaptive systems.

Agenda

09:30 – Opening Remarks. Nina Kostina (Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain)
09:40 – Keynote Lecture: Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) “Towards Molecular Networks that Learn”
10:35 Invited Lecture: Dr. Benjamí Oller (IQS, Barcelona), “Engineering conditionally active proteins and synthetic receptors for precision delivery”
11:20 – IBEC Lecture: Dr. Subhadip Ghosh, “Motility of Enzyme-Powered Protocells”
11:55 – Coffee Break
12:25 – Keynote Lecture: Prof. Kerstin Göpfrich (Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany), “RNA design for quasi-living cellular systems”
13:10 – IBEC Lecture: Prof. César Rodríguez-Emmenegger, “Phagocytic Synthetic Cells: Non-Living Predators to Fight Bacteria”
14:00 – Lunch Break
14:50 – Early Career IBEC Lecture: M.Sc. Aina Albajar, “Studying the mechanical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport using Single Molecule Tracking”
15:25 – IBEC Lecture: Prof. Xavier Trepat, “Synthetic mechanobiology of epithelial shape and migration”
16:10 – Closing Remarks. Nina Kostina

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Innovació científica i tecnològica en salut: transferència de resultats per a la medicina del futur
2026-02-17 09:00 - 15:30 | Sala Dolors Aleu, Cluster II, IBEC, Baldiri i Reixac, Barcelona
i millorar la qualitat de vida de la ciutadana, però sense transferència no hi ha impacte. Catalunya és un referent en recerca biomèdica i biotecnològica, però el gran repte és transformar aquest coneixement en solucions reals que arribin a la clínica i al pacient.
En el marc de la Barcelona Health Innovation Week 2026, des de l’Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) organitzem aquesta jornada per demostrar que és possible connectar l’ecosistema de recerca amb el sistema de sanitari i empreses per impulsar la medicina personalitzada, les teràpies avançades i les tecnologies que milloren el diagnòstic i el tractament.
Aquesta sessió posa el focus en la transferència tecnològica i en l’impacte real de la recerca. Presentarem els resultats del Pla Complementari de Biotecnologia aplicada a la salut a Catalunya, un programa que ha fomentat la col·laboració entre centres de recerca i instituts sanitaris per desenvolupar solucions disruptives en salut. A més, comptarem amb experts i expertes en transferència tecnològica, inversió i gestió de la innovació que compartiran estratègies per accelerar la translació de coneixement cap al mercat i la clínica així com casos d’èxit que ja estan marcant el camí de la medicina del futur.
Si vols conèixer de prop les claus de l’èxit en la translació de la medicina personalitzada, connectar amb agents de l’ecosistema d’innovació i formar part de la conversa sobre el futur de la nostra salut, no et perdis aquesta oportunitat única per entendre com la col·laboració i la inversió en innovació poden generar valor per a la societat.
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4th edition EMBL-IBEC Conference Egineering Multicellular Systems
2026-03-11 08:00 - 2026-03-13 17:00 | PRBB (Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona), Ramon y Cajal Room
EMBL and IBEC aim to contribute to the discussion on challenges and opportunities in the expanding field of engineered multicellular systems.
Recent breakthroughs in stem cell biology, organ-on-chip assays, 3D bioprinting, and cell mechanobiology have revolutionized our ability to design and assemble multicellular living systems, from organoids to embryos.
This biennial series will focus on how engineering such systems is advancing our understanding of tissue and organ function, with applications in disease modeling, developmental biology, and regenerative medicine.
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