On November 15th, the World Day of Neuromuscular diseases was celebrated. Coinciding with the date, IBEC organised two events that brought together scientist and patients to talk about the new approaches in which bioengineering can impact for the diagnostics and treatment of these minority diseases. Despite being considered rare or minority diseases, more than 150 … Read more
During the visit, the President of the Government of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès i Garcia, and the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells i Díaz, were able to learn first-hand about several examples of the application of bioengineering in the development of advanced therapies carried out at IBEC. The President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragonès … Read more
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), as coordinator of the Complementary Plan for Biotechnology Applied to Health, will open a selection process to recruit specialized research personal to carry out the 16 Collaborative Projects recently appointed. The total budget for this action is more than 1,3 million euros. The Complementary Plans are financed jointly … Read more
Núria Montserrat, ICREA professor and group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), has been awarded with the “Constantes y Vitales” Young talent award in Biomedical research during its 8th edition. These awards are aimed at recognizing, valuing, supporting and strengthening the research and preventing work of Spanish scientist in the health field … Read more
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the national coordinator of the Complementary Plan for Biotechnology applied to health, has selected 16 R&D Collaborative Projects in Catalonia to which it will allocate a total budget of more than 3.5 million euros from the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Government of Catalonia. The … Read more
Roser Cussó, the first artist-in-residence at IBEC, develops her project in an artistic investigation entitled “Laboratory of Human Landscapes” with an internship from the culture department of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The “Laboratory of Human Landscapes” proposes to imagine, through graphical experimentation and illustration, the possible unknown spaces that our bodies inhabit. The project wants … Read more
Samuel Sánchez, ICREA research professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), receives the “Research Excellence” award given by the Spanish Real Society of Chemistry. The ceremony, which was held in the Chemistry Faculty of the University of Santiago de Compostela on last 18th of October, hosted the delivery of the awards and distinctions … Read more
IBEC inaugurates its “Journalist-in-Residence” programme with Astrid Viciano, medical doctor and journalist of Spanish-German nationality, specialized in scientific journalism. It is the first programme with these characteristics that is promoted from a Spanish research centre. With the aim of supporting the high-quality scientific journalism in the areas of health and science, promoting the public scientific … Read more
Taking advantage of the renewal of its website, IBEC has created a new virtual space dedicated to Open Science. This space is a public demonstration of IBEC’s commitment to Open Science, in accordance with its own values and mission, which has been realized with various initiatives and positions that the new virtual space gathers and … Read more
Researchers from the European project THERACAT, coordinated by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), have been working for the last four years in developing new strategies to treat cancer in a local manner. By using nanoparticles that can transform a non-active pro-drug into an active drug, they went some steps further in the development … Read more