The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), a CERCA centre, is pleased to announce that Dr Teresa Sanchis, Head of Strategy at IBEC, has been appointed Director General of Research at the Department of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia. This appointment recognises her scientific career and commitment to research management.
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) attended the opening of the exhibition, which highlights extinct fauna that remains present in the collective imagination. The exhibition includes a section dedicated to the Tasmanian tiger featuring a piece by Antoni Muntadas, on which IBEC collaborated with Benedetta Bolognesi, a principal investigator at the institute.
IBEC researcher Juanma Fernández recently has received funding from the French AFM-Telethon to carry out the project “Monitoring of fibrotic processes in 3D skeletal muscle co-cultures for Muscular Dystrophies using plasmonic biosensors”. The objective is to develop multiplexing sensor devices to achieve online, real-time sensing capability to monitor fibrosis markers and evaluate drug response in muscular dystrophy in vitro models.
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) have signed a framework collaboration agreement to promote joint research, innovation and technology transfer activities in the field of bioengineering for health applications.
Seven more research groups at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have been certified by My Green Lab, reaching the highest rating, the Green Level, for sustainable laboratory practices. With these additions, IBEC core facilities and 70% of the Institute’s laboratories are now certified.
The Barcelona Science Park hosted today’s conference, “Reforming research evaluation to promote scientific quality and impact: Experiences and trends within the framework of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)”. The event was organised by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the CERCA Institution and the University of Carthage, and was co-funded by the CoARA coalition and the European Union.
The first collaboration day between the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute was held today at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). The meeting provided an opportunity to share research projects, identify areas for collaboration and formalise a strategic alliance through the signing of a collaboration agreement between IBEC, the Hospital del Mar and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute.
Manuel Salmeron and Xavier Rovira, who are both principal investigators at IBEC, have each been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. These prestigious grants are awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and social potential of research projects carried out at European institutions. Salmeron’s project, FACTORINK, focuses on designing functional bioinks with biological activity for printing artificial tissues. Meanwhile, Rovira’s project seeks to develop the EVOaware platform, which is designed to address tumour resistance to therapies and accelerate the discovery and development of new cancer treatments.
Barcelona hosted the 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Iberian Chapter on 3 and 4 July, organised this year in collaboration with the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). The event brought together almost one hundred professionals from the field of magnetic resonance imaging to discuss the latest scientific, clinical, and computational advances.
Coordinated by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform, NANOMED Spain, has obtained the renewal of the grant corresponding to the ‘Technology and Innovation Platforms’ call for the period 2025-2026, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.