On Tuesday the head of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, Elisabeth Engel, was interviewed about their Dermoglass project for the Cadena SER radio programme La Ventana. Dermoglass is IBEC’s first venture into crowdfunding, and thanks to its 64 supporters so far it has already achieved 50% of its target.
IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alicia Casals features in an article in Regió 7 (“El diari de la Catalunya central”) and other sites about next week’s (re)Make conference on information and communication technologies.
IBEC appears in an article about bionics and rebuilding the human body published in Argentine daily newspaper El Tribuno (Salta), when Josep Samitier is quoted as an expert opinion on the subject.
Founding director of IBEC Josep A. Planell appears in La Vanguardia‘s Tendencias section yesterday in an interview by journalist Maite Gutiérrez.
Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group leader Pau Gorostiza was the subject of a feature last week in La Vanguardia‘s Sunday magazine “Diners”.
Santiago Marco is interviewed in a video for UBTV about Somnoalert®, the mobile technology his group developed with the UB and industry partner FICOSA to detect drowsiness while driving.
Control of stem cell potency group leader Ángel Raya appeared on Thursday night’s edition of current events programme Barcelona Connexió on Barcelona Televisió (BTV), in a special report on cloning.
IBEC got another mention in El Periódico this week, when Victoria Englert, winner of the prestigious Intel ISEF prize of the Fundación Catalunya-La Pedrera, talks about her forthcoming internship in the Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group.
IBEC’s Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya appears today in La Vanguardia and El Mundo giving his expert opinion on some research published in Nature about a Japanese group that has managed to create a functional human liver using induced pluripotent stem cells.