IBEC in the Media

Xavier Trepat and the UPC’s Marino Arroyo had their turn at being profiled in La Vanguardia on Sunday as finalists in this year’s edition of the newspaper’s Science Award.

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Samuel Sánchez was one of two scientists taking part in a studio discussion on La Sexta Noche on Saturday, in a segment about what it’s like to be a talented young scientist or entrepreneur in the financial climate of Spain today.

Last week’s Nano World Cancer Day, organised by the IBEC-led Spanish Nanotechnology Platform NanoMed Spain, is covered in today’s edition of Gaceta Médica.

Samuel Sánchez’s nanorobots are one of the “Seis aplicaciones robóticas que no conocías” described in an article in El Pais today.

Covering the recent Global Robot Expo in Madrid, at which Samuel was a speaker, the article explains the various applications for current research into robotics, including robots for therapy and rehabilitation, recycling, search and rescue, intelligent cities, agriculture and, of course, medicine.

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Pau Gorostiza features in an El Periódico article about optogenetics, which is booming in Barcelona.

IBEC Director Josep Samitier is quoted in El Periodico today giving his expert opinion on some work that has been published in the U.S.

The research into Alzheimer’s disease being carried out by Jose Antonio Del Rio’s Molecular and Cellular Neurobiotechnology group is the subject of a video by UBTV.

Following his appearance at Emtech France in Toulouse in December 2015, Samuel Sánchez featured in French daily newspaper La Tribune.

IBEC was one of the subjects of the La 2 programme “Fábrica de Ideas” on Saturday 5th December.

Elisabeth Engel’s CIBER-BNN project alongside IDIBELL on the regeneration of nerve tissue after brain injury, this project, is one of the focus points of the CIBER-BNN Ninth Annual Conference in Valencia this week.