Conceived by IBEC and IQS researcher Jordi Duran, the documentary “Fighting the rare ” explains how scientific research was carried out on the minority disease called Lafora disease. The documentary … Read more
IBEC researcher Pere Roca-Cusachs has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, one of the EU’s most prestigious and competitive grants. This type of funding allows established researchers to carry out … Read more
A team of researchers from IBEC and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Barcelona have designed a device based on microfluidic physics to predict the … Read more
A study led by IBEC researchers has made it possible to reproduce the blood-brain barrier using the organ-on-a-chip (OoC) platform with the ultimate goal of being able to study the … Read more
IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches research group challenged students at the Fundació Eduard Soler (FES) of Ripoll as part of a research project with photosensitive molecules. One of the students, Gerard … Read more
On 2 March, “La Caixa” Foundation organised a debate on the latest advances in light-activated drugs as part of the “CaixaImpulse Debate”. Nuria Camarero, a researcher in IBEC’s Nanoprobes and … Read more
Coinciding with the celebration of 11 February, the Day of Girls and Women in Science, Nuria Montserrat is one of the three protagonists of the Constantes y Vitales campaign entitled … Read more
A team of experts led by IBEC research associate Jordi Alacaraz have discovered how lung adenocarcinoma recruits cancer-associated fibroblasts, and the impact this phenomenon has on the spread of the … Read more
IBEC researchers have published a study in the journal Nature in which they have designed and developed a three-molecule complex that increases the efficacy and stability, while reducing the toxicity, … Read more
IBEC researcher Zaida Álvarez and UB researcher Alberto Ortega have produced the first highly mature neurons grown in the lab from pluripotent stem cells using a synthetic matrix. Until now, … Read more