“Un químico que puede superar la ciencia ficción”
IBEC in the Media
“El cerebro que vuelve”
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.
“La vida: un nou estat de la matèria?”
An opinion piece by Xavier Trepat appears in the current edition of El Punt Avui.
“La investigación tiene futuro”
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.
“Xavier Trepat, premiado por aplicar la física a las ciencias de la vida”
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.
Bioenginyeria per fer realitat “L’home de carn”
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.
“Fármacos estimulados con luz actúan solo sobre células enfermas”
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.
“Biomimética: Naturaleza replicada”
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.
“Robots del tamaño de virus”
El Periódico features an interview with Samuel Sànchez following the announcement last week that he has been awarded the Premio Fundación Princesa de Girona Investigación Científica 2015.
“Estudiamos las infecciones en el intestino de la bacteria E.coli”
Eduard Torrents, who heads IBEC’s Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group, is the subject of an article in the Diari de Terrassa this week about his work earlier this year which identified a important factor in E. coli infection, opening the way to developing targeted drugs against the potentially deadly condition.