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IBEC PhD Discussions Complementary Skills Session: #LancetGate and its broader implications for the pandemic response and science dissemination 

#LancetGate and its broader implications for the pandemic response and science dissemination Carlos Chaccour, ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona On May 22, 2020, the Lancet published an influential report on the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID conducted using a vast database owned by a company based in Chicago: Surgisphere. The world counted more than 300.000 ... Read more

13th IBEC Symposium – Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine

Registration is now open for the 13th IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine The 13th IBEC Symposium will focus on one of our three main areas of application of research at IBEC: Future and Precision Medicine. Although we would have loved to meet everyone in person, due to the COVID-19 outbreak and ... Read more

3rd EIT Health Innovation Day

EIT Health Innovation Day IBEC is participating, once more, in the organization of this year’s EIT Health Innovation Day that will be held on-line from 31st October to 7th November 2020 (Dedication per day: 30-45 min. aprox. (flexible schedule)). Innovation Days (i-Days) promote health innovation among university students through dozens of one-to-two-day programmes held at academic ... Read more

PhD Thesis Defense: Dolores Blanco

Noninvasive multimodal analysis of thoracic bioimpedance and myographic signals for the assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Dolores Blanco, Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation Chronic respiratory diseases cause morbidity and premature mortality in adult population. In particular, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a socioeconomic burden worldwide. COPD is usually evaluated by a spirometry test ... Read more

Online IBEC Seminar: Xavier Trepat

Mechanobiology of intestinal organoids Xavier Trepat, IBEC Intestinal organoids capture essential features of the intestinal epithelium such as folding of the crypt, spatial compartmentalization of different cell types, and cellular movements from crypt to villus-like domains. Each of these processes and their coordination in time and space requires patterned physical forces that are currently unknown. ... Read more

Bioengineering and MedTtech against cancer

Bioengineering & MedTtech against cancer   To meet the challenges in healthcare of the 21st century, it is important to combined bioengineering and MedTech to develop biological system analyze and treatment to treat specifically cancer cells and protect the rest of the patient’s body by limiting side effects. To accomplish this, we need to promote ... Read more

PhD Thesis Defense: Jesús Ordoño

Sala d'Actes de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME) Carrer de Pau Gargallo, Barcelona, Spain

Lactate: unraveling the regenerative potential for cardiac tissue engineering Jesús Ordoño, Biometerials for regenerative therapies grouop This thesis defense will take place on the 25th November at 12.00 at Sala d'Actes de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME), Campus Diagonal Sud. It is possible to attend to this defense but it will also be ... Read more

Online IBEC Seminar: Paul Verschure

The volitional brain in action: counterfactual error and the virtualization of memory Volitional motor control can be seen as the result of a gradual replacement of feedback by feedforward control. We have addressed this question from the perspective of an integrated architecture called the Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) theory of mind and brain. DAC proposes ... Read more

PhD Thesis Defense: Arnau Biosca

Discovery of protein aggregation in Plasmodium parasites and development of a combinational antimalarial therapy at the nanoscale Arnau Biosca, Nanomalaria Group This thesis defense will take place ONLINE on the 4th December at 11.00 using the "BB Collaborate" streaming platform.

PhD Thesis Defense: Javier Rodriguez Benítez

Characterization and interpretation of cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory dynamics in cardiomyopathy patients Javier Rodriguez Benítez, member of Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation (BIOSPIN) Group  Friday 4th December 2020, at 11.00 am This defense will be transmitted online at Google meet, using this link