The official press launch of BioNanoMed Catalunya, the IBEC-led platform to promote synergies between groups, universities, hospitals and companies doing research in nanotechnology applied to health and biotechnology, featured in the lunchtime news on TV3 on 13 May.
IBEC group leader Ángel Raya is quoted in an article in La Vanguardia about recent research from Harvard that has discovered a cell type previously unknown in the human body.
Postdoc researcher in the Nanobioengineering group Toni Homs was asked to give some feedback to be published on the website of the collaborative project Interbio.
An article entitled “Nanomedicine, the key to early diagnosis” including an interview with IBEC associate director Josep Samitier appears in Diario Medico.
Some recent research by the Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group has been featured in the section ‘Literature Review: A roundup of the most important recent studies’ in ENT Today magazine.
Coverage in El País of Imaginenano, one of the largest European events in nanoscience and nanotechnology which took place on 11-14 April at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, in which IBEC took part.
IBEC associate director Josep Samitier is an expert opinion quoted in El Periodico last week regarding a story about a Japanese study that succeeded in growing an embryonic eye from the stem cells of mice.
IBEC’s recently completed FP7 project on technology transfer, Nano2Market, was featured in the recent Commission’s Research*EU magazine supplement (Vol. 30, December 2010/January 2011).
Robotics group leader Alícia Casals appeared last week in Catalan local paper El 9 Nou, which covers the Osona/Ripollès and Vallès Oriental areas. Alícia gave a lecture about this century’s challenges in robotics at the 3rd Workshop on Mechatronics at the University of Vic on 16 February.
IBEC associate director Josep Samitier is a contributor to the January edition of Biocat’s e-newsletter.