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. 
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.
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.
An article and interview with Josep Samitier in El Mundo presents EIT Health and the Spanish node.
IBEC research was highlighted in the morning news on Telecinco today when new group leader Samuel Sánchez’s nanorobots were presented as a potential future substitute for chemotherapy.
IBEC’s junior group leader Nuria Montserrat appeared on RTVE’s channel 1 programme Saber Vivir earlier this month, when they had an episode devoted to kidney disease and research. In a brief interview filmed at IBEC, Nuria explained the two pillars of her current research: to create viable kidney cells in the lab that can be implanted in vivo, and to study the signals that are necessary to encourage the kidney to regenerate itself.