IBEC in the Media

On 30 June the rtve science programme Lab24 featured an interview with new IBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez, who describes his research on micro and nanomotors.

IBEC alumnus Javier G. Fernandez, who was visiting to give a seminar last week, was featured in an article about new materials inspired by insects in Catalan magazine ARA this weekend.

IBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez was the subject of an article in El Periódico on Tuesday.

An article about new IBEC group leader Samuel Sanchez by Josep Corbella in La Vanguardia yesterday talks about the ‘brain gain’ of having the nanotechnologist return to Catalonia after several years in Japan, the USA and Germany.

An opinion piece by Xavier Trepat appears in the current edition of El Punt Avui.

In El Periodico today, there’s a four-page article about Catalonia’s ‘champion scientists’.

IBEC is the only institute with not one but two investigators presented, Xavier Trepat and Nuria Montserrat. They’re described as some of the handful of talent under 40 working to improve the health and welfare of society.

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Xavier Trepat’s winning of this year’s Banc Sabadell Award for Biomedical Research was all over the newspapers last month, with articles appearing in La Vanguardia, El Mundo and El Periodico, among others.

In the magazine Ara this weekend, IBEC group leader Nuria Montserrat and artist Marcel·lí Antúnez, who creates interactive sculpture with organic materials, such as Joan l’Home de Carn, appeared in an article together talking about organ regeneration.

IBEC group leader Pau Gorostiza and his work on developing light-regulated drugs in for focused delivery and reduced side effects are presented in an article in La Vanguardia today.

A two-page article in La Vanguardia today talks about biomimetics and how scientists are replicating processes from nature in fields such as nanotechnology, engineering, robotics, chemistry and materials science.