IBEC in the Media

IBEC featured on 8tv’s ‘Equip de Reporters’ programme on Sunday night, which was entitled ‘Investigant la investigació’ and focussed on public and private funding for science. Joan Aranda of the Robotics group demonstrated the experimental robotic kitchen as as example of the group’s privately-supported work in developing intelligent robotic systems. Head of Corporate Projects Arantxa Sanz commented on the current financial situation in relation to the research community, pointing out that private funding is always needed and welcome even in affluent times.

The Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group’s research into light as a tool to manipulate biological and pharmacological processes remotely and non-invasively was featured last week in Investigación y Ciencia, the Spanish version of Scientific American.

On October 13 El Periódico published an article about Nobel Prize winners John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, who won the prize in medicine or physiology for their achievements in stem cell research. Towards the end of the piece, the author talks about the leading position held by Catalonia in research into stem cells, naming IBEC’s Ángel Raya as one of the region’s pioneers.

IBEC group leader Ángel Raya is quoted in articles in online newspapers Público and Materia this week, giving his expert opinion about some recent research in Japan. The scientists in … Read more

Senior researcher Eduard Torrents appears several times in the July edition of the newspaper of the Associació Catalana de Fibrosi Quística, Per a Vèncer la Fibrosi Quística.

IBEC group leader José Antonio del Río contributed to an Expansión article from August about funding for research, in particular neuroscience, for which 2012 was a “Year of” in Spain.

Senior research associate Jérôme Noailly of the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group features in an article about mobility and the opportunities offered to international researchers in the latest edition of Informacions, a monthly magazine on research, teaching and institutional activities at the UPC.

Media coverage of the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group’s work in Nature Physics this week:

http://www.que.es/ultimas-noticias/sociedad/201207100007-descubren-celulas-mueven-empujones-rioja.html

Media coverage of the Nanoscale Bioelectrical Characterisation group’s work in Nature Materials this week:

http://www.lswn.it/comunicati/stampa/2012/riconoscimento_nano_oggetti_e_virus_senza_marcatori

The work of IBEC’s infrastructures team features in this week’s issue of Info Prevencion, the newsletter of the Fundación Prevent, a non-profit organization promoting safer work environments.