Nanomedicine against rare diseases joins forces
Institutional news
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
Roger Oria wins the XXIV Doctors’ Senate Award of the University of Barcelona (UB) for his thesis on mechanobiology, an emerging discipline that can help identify new tools to stop pathologies associated with tissue stiffness, such as cancer.
Nanomedicine against cancer brings together hundred experts
Nanomed, the Spanish nanomedicine platform coordinated by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), organized with the Germans Trias i Pujol Institute (IGTP), the sixth edition of a conference designed to present the advances against cancer, from early diagnosis and controlled drug release, up to nanoparticle radiation therapy.
Nuria Montserrat will coordinate from IBEC the new national platform for biobanks and biomodels
The Carlos III Health Institute grants Nuria Montserrat, ICREA Research Professor and principal investigator at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the coordination of the National Platform of Biobanks and Biomodels for the next three years.
IBEC participates in European Project developing new technologies for the study and treatment of neurological diseases
Pau Gorostiza and his team at IBEC participates in the DEEPER project which aims at creating new tools for accessing the deep brain with unprecedented precision for the study and treatment of neurological diseases. The project involves 12 partners in 8 countries, and it has been funded by the European Union with approximately 5.7 million euros for the next 4 years.
IBEC participates in the European Commission conference “towards replacement of animals for scientific purposes”
Did you know that IBEC holds an HR Excellence in Research logo that must be renewed every 3 years? Soon we will start a phase of diagnosis to define a new Action Plan and optimise the current one.