IBEC in the Media

An article by Raimon Jané appears in this month’s edition of IEEE Pulse, the magazine of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, which is devoted to the science of sleep.

The Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group has appeared on science programme ‘El problema de Gettier’. Junior group leader Elisabeth Engel talks about the group’s development of a tuned implant that could aid the regeneration of brain tissue, particularly in cases of pre- and postnatal injury.

Made by La Xarxa, the programme is broadcast on various regional TV channels at different times.

On 16 June El Mundo published an article about Barcelona’s Festa al Parc de la Ciutadella, specifically about the NanOpinion Mobile Station which was co-organised by IBEC and IrsiCaixa, as well as the nanotechnology workshop held at IBEC the following day.

On Tuesday, Robotics group leader Alícia Casals was interviewed about her field of research in the programme ‘Illa Robinson’ on the TV channel El Punt Avui.

In its Innovadores supplement, El Mundo devotes an article to IBEC and its three areas of application: Bioengineering for future medicine, Bioengineering for regenerative therapies, and Bioengineering for active ageing.

Integrative cell and tissue dynamics group leader Xavier Trepat is profiled in El Mundo’s ‘Innovadores’ supplement today.

Alberto Elosegui and Pere Roca-Cusachs’ Nature Materials paper gets lots of press coverage in newspapers, TV and radio today. In the study, they describe for the first time how mammary cells detect tissue stiffening, which is key to the development of breast cancer.

An article about, and interview with, Pau Gorostiza appears in El Periódico today, talking about his work on light-activated drugs.

IBEC group leaders Alícia Casals and Santiago Marco feature in a Sunday supplement about robots in La Vanguardia this week.