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September 2, 2016

Wikipedia entries for IBEC

IBEC now has Wikipedia entries in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Wikipedia is the seventh most-visited website in the world and the largest encyclopedia ever, with 5,200,000 entries in English alone. The fifteen year-old website has been described as the ‘largest collaborative effort in the history of mankind’.

As with all Wikipedia entries, the IBEC page is a ‘living’ page, and will be expanded and improved over time as the institute’s history progresses.

With these new entries, IBEC joins the category “Research institutes in Catalonia” of the free online encyclopedia, in which other centres in the Catalan research system are already present.

July 26, 2016

IBEC a key member of the new RIS3CAT communities

IBEC is a member of one of five ‘communities’ that will receive funding as part of the RIS3CAT intiative, which aims to enable and promote large projects in Catalonia that combine industry and research.

In the launch meeting at the headquarters of RIS3CAT coordinator ACCIO – the government’s agency for competitivity in business – on Monday, Minister for Business and Enterprise Jordi Baiget, who chaired the event alongside Director General of Industry Nuria Betriu, declared RIS3CAT “the greatest ever effort for innovation in Catalonia”.

IBEC is a member of NEXTHEALTH, one of two health-related RIS3CAT communities among the five, all of which bring together businesses, research organizations, hospitals, and other major players to form a critical mass to work in collaboration on large-scale projects to boost innovation.

July 19, 2016July 13, 2016

BIYSC: helping students unlock their potential

This month IBEC is taking part in the Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC 2016), a new initiative that aims to stimulate scientific talent among young people from all over the world.

IBEC’s researchers are contributing via the institute’s BIYSC project, “Instructive Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine”, coordinated by Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group senior researcher Soledad Pérez. The project aims to help the students understand the basis of regenerative medicine and to find out about developing of target-specific biomaterial scaffolding systems. IBEC’s project is one of ten being offered by research centres in the area within the framework of BIYSC, including IRB, CRG, ICFO, the UB, and ICIQ, and one of four that was fully subscribed.

July 7, 2016July 7, 2016

IBEC a winner at the 10th National Alares Awards 2016

At a ceremony held yesterday at the Caixa Forum in Madrid, IBEC’s managing director David Badia received on behalf of IBEC the second prize for “Reconciliation of Working Life, Family and Personal and Social Responsibility” from the Alares Foundation.

IBEC, which was one of just 39 winners selected from 392 candidates, received the award for the practices implemented in its guide “Measures to reconcile work and family life”, as well as for its actions towards social responsibility. These include the creation of the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) and its Action Plan, which has 17 measures benefiting staff and researchers; its actions on responsible research and innovation; the training of experts in health technologies; and its extensive programme of dissemination and outreach actions to boost the visibility of the scientific research at the institute, among other things.

July 4, 2016July 1, 2016

New BIB website boosts visibility of Catalan potential in bioinformatics

Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB) has officially launched its website, which details the bioinformatic activities of 40 partners – including IBEC – and over 80 research groups.

IBEC’s Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation, Mechanics of development and disease and Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems groups are featured on the site, as they carry out bioinformatics-related activities such as algorithmics, biomedical informatics, biostatistics, or bioinformatics of disease and treatment.

June 29, 2016

9th IBEC Symposium on the theme of ‘Bioengineering for Active Ageing’

IBEC is celebrating its 9th annual IBEC Symposium today at Barcelona’s AXA Auditorium.

This year the theme will be ‘Bioengineering for Active Ageing, which is one of the institute’s three main areas of application.

The global ageing population will have considerable consequences, but biomedical engineering can contribute greatly to improving the quality of life of older people. Assisted living technologies such as telecare, home-based devices and services that support daily life with a remote link to a call-centre, and telehealth – remote monitoring, consultation and diagnosis – can help support independent living at home, keeping patients out of hospital and residential care for longer. Advances in sensors, signal treatment, data analysis, robotics and intelligent control systems at IBEC are enabling the development of remote care or assisted living, so that people with dementia or long-term health conditions can remain in their own homes.

July 4, 2016June 27, 2016

IBEC at first ever international 3D printing congress

IBEC Director Josep Samitier and the Technology Transfer unit introduced IBEC’s 3D bioprinting capabilities at the first IN(3D)USTRY event, which was held in Barcelona last week.

The first ever international meeting devoted to 3D printing, “IN(3D)USTRY: From Needs to Solutions” saw leading companies and other organisations showcase the innovations and opportunities that the new technology can offer to countless projects and processes.

The meeting, which was founded by Fira de Barcelona and HP, attracted professionals working in areas as diverse as as autos and aeronautics, architecture and habitat, retail and consumer goods and, of course, healthcare.

June 16, 2016June 16, 2016

Celebrating advances in spinal cord and brain research by Marató-funded projects

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Pau Gorostiza took part in the 17th Symposium of La Marató de TV3 this week, which was devoted to the celebration of the 30 research projects awarded funding by the telethon in 2010.

The event at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans on Wednesday, which included a poster session open to the public, featured round tables of experts discussing the findings of the projects, which covered research into the understanding, treatment and prognosis acquired spinal cord and brain injuries.

June 14, 2016

IBEC’s Xavier Trepat a guest star at Big Vang’s first anniversary

Xavier Trepat, ICREA professor and group leader at IBEC, was the guest star at the first anniversary celebration of Big Vang, La Vanguardia’s online science section

At the event on 7th June, where Xavier shared the stage with the director of IRB Joan Guinovart, the relationship between scientists and journalists was discussed – a relationship that can sometimes be a little illusive, as journalist Cristina Saez put it, referring to the disagreements that can arise between the two sides when explaining science to the public. Along with fellow journalist Núria Jar, she introduced questions to the invited guests.

June 27, 2016June 10, 2016

Three minutes of fame

IBEC PhD student Ana Solorzano has been selected as one of the 10 finalists from 300 participants in a “Thesis in 3 Minutes” competition that will take place at the 2016 Jornadas de Cooperación CONACyT-Catalunya (JCCC) next week.

Ana, who is doing her PhD in the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group of Santiago Marco, will present the condensed explanation of her work, entitled “Fuego, Sensores de Gas, Reconocimiento de Patrones, Intoxicación”, at the finals of the competition at the JCCC event on 13th June.