IBEC is mentioned in the press today in relation to the HYPER project, of which the Robotics group is a partner. The story reveals the start of some pilot tests with real spine patients at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo with the robots being developed by the project, which aims to develop new treatments in neurorehabilitation and help with patients’ mobility.
IBEC Director Josep Samitier stars in one of the Associació per a la Divulgació de la Cultura Cientifica (ADICC)’s ‘Càpsules de Ciència’, a series of videos highlighting biomedical and biotechnology researchers in Catalonia. In the video, he explains nanobiotechnology with the submarine on Ronda de Dalt as a backdrop, which represents the way nanodevices can travel through our bodies much like tiny submarines on a rescue mission.
At the end of last year El Periódico covered the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group’s crowdfunding venture, the Dermoglass project, with a full page article and colour photos.
This week’s press release about the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group’s work published in Nature Materials has appeared online in La Vanguardia, ABC and El Diario.
Josep Samitier, Xavier Fernandez-Busquets, Santiago Marco and Sergio Oller all feature in this half-hour episode of science programme ‘El problema de Gettier’, which is devoted to nanotechnology.
Last week BTV’s Connexió programme reported on three of the projects which are currently raising funds by crowdfunding under the UPC’s SUMA initiative. One is the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies … Read more
IBEC Director and Head of Nanobioengineering, Josep Samitier, and the head of the joint IBEC/CRESIB unit on Nanomalaria, Xavier Fernández-Busquets, both featured in an article in the Catalan daily newspaper Ara this weekend.
Emili Boronat from IBEC’s Robotics group appeared on TV3’s Info K programme yesterday after taking part in the presentation of the initiative ‘Investiga amb RecerCaixa!’ at Cosmocaixa in Barcelona alongside 9 other researchers from other institutions.
On Tuesday the head of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, Elisabeth Engel, was interviewed about their Dermoglass project for the Cadena SER radio programme La Ventana. Dermoglass is IBEC’s first venture into crowdfunding, and thanks to its 64 supporters so far it has already achieved 50% of its target.
