IBEC and the NEN Association join forces against childhood neuroblastoma
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The Spanish Nanomedicine Platform coordinated by IBEC receives a new boost
The Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (Nanomed Spain) has renewed the “Aid to Technological and Innovation Platforms” for the period 2021-2022 granted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Josep Samitier, director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, coordinates the Nanomed Spain platform since its foundation in 2005.
The new “la Caixa” Foundation – BIST Chemical Biology Programme launches a hub in Barcelona for the design of new drugs
The “la Caixa” Foundation and BIST are creating a chemical biology programme to promote two new cutting-edge research groups at IBEC and IRB (both centres are members of BIST). The initiative aims to attract talent from the field of chemical biology, and to create an ecosystem that fosters research excellence in improving health.
IBEC alumni Alberto Elosegui-Artola, new scientific leader at the Francis Crick Institute
Alberto Elosegui-Artola, IBEC alumni and expert in mechanobiology, will start in a few days his own research group to study cell and tissue mechanics at the Francis Crick Institute, in a joint appointment with the Physics Department at King’s College London. This is another example of great success of IBEC alumni in the international scientific arena.
IBEC Group Leader Silvia Muro, elected to join the American medical and biological engineering elite
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Dr. Silvia Muro as a member of the college of Fellows for her achievements on the behavior of nanomedicines at the cellular and molecular levels.
Nanomedicine against rare diseases joins forces
Nano Rare Diseases Day is an event organized for February 24th within the framework of the World Day for Minority Diseases, in which will be known the latest innovations in the field of Nanomedicine for the treatment and diagnosis of these diseases also known as rare or orphan.
Marino Arroyo, associated researcher at IBEC, honoured with an ICREA Academia award
The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) recognizes the excellent research of Professor Marino Arroyo, who wins for the third time the ICREA Academia award. Over the next five years he will receive a grant in recognition of the research excellence done in his laboratory to continue developing research projects on mechanobiology.
IBBI is born: the first bioingeneering superhero
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) presents this February the 11th a female superhero figure which aims to reach out to the general public, in a popular way, one of the disciplines that are called to impact the medicine of the future: bioengineering.
IBEC receives the Spanish Minister Pedro Duque interested in the latest advances in bioengineering
Last Friday 5th of February, the Spanish Minister for Science and Innovation, Pedro Duque, visited the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, in order to know first-hand the latest advances in bioengineering for health.
Awarded a thesis on mechanobiology at IBEC
