On Saturday 21 April Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya gave a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Diabetes in Vigo (http://sedvigo2012.pacifico-meetings.com/index.php/programa).
Yesterday La Vanguardia published a news item about the inauguration of the Tecnorrevolución exhibition at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum, which was officially opened by IBEC associate director Josep Samitier last night.
In their coverage of the Fira en Directe at La Pedrera yesterday, Barcelona TV chose to focus on IBEC. The reporter interviewed PhD student Xavier Giralt for several minutes about the robotics activities and demonstrations on the IBEC stand.
The recent press release about Pere Roca-Cusachs’ PNAS paper looking at the way cells probe their environment was covered by Diario Medico on 28 March.
IBEC got a mention in Spanish daily El Mundo yesterday, when Robotics group leader Alicia Casals gave her expert opinion in an article about the use of robots in healthcare and the financial hurdles that impede their translation to the clinic.
Last week’s press release about the Control of Stem Cell Potency group’s discovery of disease-specific phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cells from Parkinsons patients was covered by several newspapers, magazines and websites. These included daily business newspaper El Economista, online science magazine Tendencias 21, and Europapress, the major national news agency.
In their bulletin for February, the Spanish Association of Biotechnology Companies (ASEBIO) published an editorial by the president of their scientific committee Emilio Muñoz, about the impact of bionanotechnology in Spain and guidelines for the future.
IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alícia Casals is the subject of the February 2012 edition of Destacamus, a bimonthly magazine published by Biopol’H which profiles researchers.
IBEC director and head of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group Josep Planell was quoted as an expert opinion last week in an article in La Vanguardia. The story covered a new chip developed at MIT able to release drugs under the skin while dosage and timing is controlled wirelessly.
This week’s 5th Annual Conference of the Biomedical Research Technology Platforms in Barcelona, which IBEC is attending in its capacity as coordinator of the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanoMed Spain), is the subject of an article in Spanish healthcare magazine Redacción Médica today.