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New impulse of the “Science Law”

Josep Samitier, director of IBEC and president of the Catalan Association of Research Entities (ACER) appears in the newspaper “El Temps” for the approval of the processing of the draft of the “Law of Science”.

Raimon Jané and spinal cord injuries in the media

Raimon Jané, group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and professor at UPC, appears in the media for the development of a new methodology, using ‘smartphones’, which allows determining, objectively and quantitatively, the function of trunk in patients with spinal cord injury.

Synthetic nanofibers to repair spinal cord injuries

Researchers led by Professor Samuel Stupp, from Northwestern University (USA) and Distinguished Professor Severo Ochoa at IBEC, together with Zaida Álvarez from IBEC, appear in the media for the recent study that has allowed them to develop a new injectable therapy that uses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injury.

“Artificial smell” that determines the quality of food

Researchers led by Dr. Santiago Marco, principal investigator in the Signal and Information Processing for Sensor Systems group and professor at the University of Barcelona (UB) of IBEC, appear in the media for their recent study in collaboration with the University de Córdoba in which a system capable of detecting fraud on food labeling with the analysis of its aroma has been created.