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October 25, 2022October 21, 2022

Bioengineering for active ageing: IBEC Symposium arrives to its 15th edition

IBEC’s 15th Symposium was held the last 19th of October, with the presence of all IBEC community and some national and international invited researchers from the bioengineering field. The focus … Read more

October 4, 2022September 14, 2022

Science and Art: IBEC collaborates on a work by Antoni Muntadas at Ars Electronica 2022

When is a living organism considered extinct? This is one of the fundamental questions of the artwork presented at Ars Electronica 2022 by Antoni Muntadas, a Catalan artist based in … Read more

September 2, 2022July 20, 2022

IBEC researchers are part of the European ATTRACT Project to develop a diagnostic device to improve embryo selection for in vitro fertilization procedures

HYLIGHT Project, coordinated by Samuel Ojosnegros from IBEC, was selected by the ATTRACT Phase 2, an initiative of the European Union to boost the transfer of deep technology with great potential to transfer from the laboratories to the society. The project was financed with around 2M euros for 26 months and aims to develop a diagnostic device to select embryos based on their metabolic profiles and increase the success rates of in vitro fertilization techniques.

July 21, 2022July 6, 2022

El IBEC recibe cerca de un millón de euros para estudiar las enfermedades respiratorias graves causadas por virus

El projecto REACT, liderado por el Statens Serum Institut de Dinamarca, cuenta con la participación del Instituto de Bioingeniería de Cataluña (IBEC) que, con un presupuesto cercano al millón de euros de un total de siete, generará organoides epiteliales nasales humanos específicos como plataformas de validación y modelos preclínicos para investigar la interacción huésped-patógeno .

August 2, 2022July 1, 2022

The Complementary Plan for Biotechnology applied to Health launches the call for applications for grants for Collaborative Projects in Catalonia

The call for applications for grants for Collaborative Projects in Catalonia opens today and will remain open until September 15. These grants aim to promote scientific and technical research activities focused on personalized medicine that contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Complementary Plan for Biotechnology in Catalonia.

July 21, 2022June 22, 2022

Samuel Sánchez wins the Banc de Sabadell Science and Engineering Award

Samuel Sánchez, ICREA research professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), where he leads the “Smart nano-bio-devices” group, receives the Banc Sabadell Foundation Award for Science and Engineering for his contribution to the field of nanotechnology.

July 15, 2022June 13, 2022

EMBL-IBEC Conference consolidates in Barcelona with a great success of participation

The second edition of the EMBL-IBEC Conference organized by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) focused on the medicine of the future, bringing together 170 international experts in the field of bioengineering at the PRBB in Barcelona this week.

December 10, 2025June 7, 2022

IBEC joins EBRAINS: an international platform to support brain research

IBEC is the newest associate member from EBRAINS, an International not-for-profit association born at Human Brain Project (HBP), with, by, and for researchers. Its purpose is to create and coordinate an international infrastructure to promote brain research, providing digital tools and services as software, hardware, consultancy, and facilities to support researchers to face challenges in brain research and brain-inspired technology development.

July 15, 2022May 24, 2022

“Lessons and challenges after two years of pandemic” a FECYT report with IBEC collaboration

Yesterday, the report “Lessons and challenges after two years of pandemic” was presented at the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid, the first in a series of studies on trends in Spanish research that the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) will carry out each year and which will analyze current scientific issues.

May 3, 2022

IBEC’s “Bioengineering at the Rural School” project makes the leap to Europe

The “Bioengineering at the Rural School” project, led by the Strategic Initiatives unit of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), is being projected to different European countries in an event organized by the European Network eTwinning, the European online platform for school education, where primary and secondary school teachers from all over Europe have connected to learn, first hand, about different strategies to follow to connect schools in rural environments with cutting-edge education in different fields.