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Bioaction Project: Turning Infections from Health Risk to Opportunity

Bioaction is an EU-funded project, in which IBEC is involved, that aims to revolutionize the approach to implant-associated infections. By harnessing hydrogels and smart nanomaterials, Bioaction will transform bacterial biofilms into bio-factories for tissue regeneration, offering a novel alternative to traditional antibiotic therapies. The project is driven by a multidisciplinary team of experts and strives to improve patient outcomes while addressing the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance.

IBEC is committed to Open Science and the dissemination of knowledge 

Open Science Policy

In June of this year, the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) approved the institute’s Open Science policy, marking a milestone in its commitment and establishing the framework for managing its practices to guarantee access to research results.   The global Open Science movement, emerging from the scientific community, aligns strongly … Read more

NANOMED Spain will continue promoting nanomedicine in Spain

The Spanish Nanomedicine Platform, NANOMED Spain, has renewed the “Support for Technological and Innovation Platforms” granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the period 2023-2024. Coordinated by IBEC since its foundation in 2005, the platform brings together companies, academia, and administration in a collaborative space with the goal of expediting the translation of nanomedicine from research to the clinic and the market.

IBEC launches the Inclusive Science project in collaboration with FECYT

It is an initiative that aims to help incorporate an inclusive view into science education activities. For this project, IBEC has collaborated with various professionals in the field of diversity and inclusion to design multiple ways of accessing information (visual, written, sensory, etc.). Now, the materials and tools developed are available to the scientific and educational community.

IBEC’s BioImaging Facility opens with a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment.

Research staff of the Molecular Imaging Laboratory for Precision Medicine next to the new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scanner.

IBEC’s new BioImaging Facility will host equipment to carry out 3 different imaging techniques. Its objective is to serve projects in various fields and strengthen IBEC’s scientific and technical infrastructure. In addition, it will be open to the entire scientific community. This month the first equipment, a state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, has come into … Read more

Samuel Sánchez awarded the BASF-ICIQ Prize for Best Entrepreneur for his spin-off Nanobots Therapeutics

Samuel Sánchez in his laboratory at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Today marked the second edition of the BASF-ICIQ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards, which reward excellence in the field of chemistry. The biomedical company Nanobots Therapeutics S.L., led by Prof. Samuel Sánchez, from IBEC, has been awarded for its potential to transform broad-spectrum treatments for diseases with medical need. Nanobots Therapeutics is a spin-off created by … Read more

New Faster Future campaign tackles bacterial resistance

IBEC dedicates the 4th edition of its fundraising program, Faster Future, to develop novel strategies to treat infections and diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Specifically, the research seeks to fight biofilms, a substance produced by bacteria that hinders the passage of antibiotics and is responsible for 80% of all microbial infections in humans. Over the … Read more

BLADDEBOTS nanobots make their way into schools through the Nanoinventum outreach project

BLADDEBOTS is a project led by IBEC researcher Samuel Sánchez, focused on developing nanorobots to treat bladder cancer. To transmit BLADDEBOTS research to society, the researcher has collaborated with the Nanoinventum dissemination initiative, which brings nanotechnology to primary classrooms. BLADDEBOTS focuses on the design of smart nanobots for efficient bladder cancer treatment. The project is … Read more

IBEC strengthens its commitment to improve research assessment

IBEC recently signed the adhesion to DORA, the Declaration on Research Assesment that recognizes the need to improve the ways in which academic research results are evaluated. In the same vein, it has also become part of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA, promoted by the European Commission. With these actions, IBEC shows its … Read more

European funding to take anti-inflammatory nanomedicines from the lab to society

IBEC researcher Giuseppe Battaglia has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. It is a prestigious funding awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and societal potential of research projects at European institutions. Battaglia’s project focuses on the development of novel nanomedicines to identify anti-inflammatory therapies and will be funded with 150,000 … Read more