Serra d’Or magazine interviewed Nuria Montserrat, leader of IBEC’s Pluripotency for organ regeneration research group. In the interview she explains her research on organoids and the impact it had during Covid. He also talks about the world of research, from his experience. You can read the full interview at Serra d’Or.
Conceived by IBEC and IQS researcher Jordi Duran, the documentary “Fighting the rare ” explains how scientific research was carried out on the minority disease called Lafora disease. The documentary shows how this disease evolves until the death of the patients. Until a few years ago the cause was not known, and thanks to the … Read more
IBEC researcher Pere Roca-Cusachs has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, one of the EU’s most prestigious and competitive grants. This type of funding allows established researchers to carry out ambitious research projects. In his case, he will continue to study the biophysical processes behind the progression of cancer and other diseases. You can read … Read more
A team of researchers from IBEC and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona have designed a device based on microfluidic physics to predict the efficacy of cancer treatments in a fast and automated way, they have named it microfluidic dynamic BH3 profiling (μDBP). This system brings cancer cells, from … Read more
A study led by IBEC researchers has made it possible to reproduce the blood-brain barrier using the organ-on-a-chip (OoC) platform with the ultimate goal of being able to study the permeability of this membrane to different Alzheimer’s drugs. This type of chip will also make it possible to screen for the most effective drugs, avoiding … Read more
IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches research group challenged students at the Fundació Eduard Soler (FES) of Ripoll as part of a research project with photosensitive molecules. One of the students, Gerard Pérez, developed a prototype as part of his final project. This prototype made it possible to improve experimental measurements. Subsequently, IBEC has proposed an improvement … Read more
On 2 March, “La Caixa” Foundation organised a debate on the latest advances in light-activated drugs as part of the “CaixaImpulse Debate”. Nuria Camarero, a researcher in IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, together with Amadeu Llebaria, leader of the Medicinal Chemistry group at the IQAC-CSIC Institute, discussed the possible application of photopharmaceuticals in today’s medicine. … Read more
Coinciding with the celebration of 11 February, the Day of Girls and Women in Science, Nuria Montserrat is one of the three protagonists of the Constantes y Vitales campaign entitled “Chicas, la Ciencia nos necesita” (Girls, Science Needs Us) on La Sexta. This campaign will aim to build female role models to help break gender … Read more
A team of experts led by IBEC research associate Jordi Alacaraz have discovered how lung adenocarcinoma recruits cancer-associated fibroblasts, and the impact this phenomenon has on the spread of the tumour and the generation of metastases. The results have shown that these cells have a migratory advantage in early stages of the tumour. In the … Read more
IBEC researchers have published a study in the journal Nature in which they have designed and developed a three-molecule complex that increases the efficacy and stability, while reducing the toxicity, of existing antibiotics. During the research, they found that this complex enhances the interaction of the drug with bacterial membranes, allowing a more controlled release. … Read more