IBEC in the Media

Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.

Click on the image (left) to see PhD student Sergio Oller from the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems talking about the group’s research into the development of electronic noses based on the mammalian olfactory system.

In this week’s Diario Medico Special on Diagnostic Therapies, IBEC acting director Josep Samitier’s expert opinion is quoted in an article about lab-on-a-chip technologies.

Saturday’s La Vanguardia included a feature in the weekend magazine Es about the recent display in London of the first ‘bionic man’, and the day that draws ever closer when we will be able to replace or regenerate all organs, limbs, body parts or functions of the human body.

IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alícia Casals was interviewed on local radio station Radio Rubí this week. The interview formed part of the Rubí al dia programme’s celebration of International Women’s Day by featuring women with interesting jobs.

IBEC group leader Raimon Jané, in his role as president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (SEIB), features in a video about the society’s CASEIB 2012 annual meeting in San Sebastián in November.

This week’s press release about Ángel Raya’s Nature Neuroscience paper gained coverage in La Razón, rTVE and many other science and news websites.

Further coverage of the driver drowsiness alerter Somnoalert® developed by IBEC and Ficosa has appeared today in El Mundo and abc.es.