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July 5, 2023

NANOMED Spain will continue promoting nanomedicine in Spain

The Spanish Nanomedicine Platform, NANOMED Spain, has renewed the “Support for Technological and Innovation Platforms” granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the period 2023-2024. Coordinated by IBEC since its foundation in 2005, the platform brings together companies, academia, and administration in a collaborative space with the goal of expediting the translation of nanomedicine from research to the clinic and the market.

July 3, 2023June 30, 2023

IBEC launches the Inclusive Science project in collaboration with FECYT

It is an initiative that aims to help incorporate an inclusive view into science education activities. For this project, IBEC has collaborated with various professionals in the field of diversity and inclusion to design multiple ways of accessing information (visual, written, sensory, etc.). Now, the materials and tools developed are available to the scientific and educational community.

June 29, 2023June 22, 2023

IBEC’s BioImaging Facility opens with a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance equipment.

Research staff of the Molecular Imaging Laboratory for Precision Medicine next to the new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance scanner.

IBEC’s new BioImaging Facility will host equipment to carry out 3 different imaging techniques. Its objective is to serve projects in various fields and strengthen IBEC’s scientific and technical infrastructure. … Read more

June 21, 2023

Samuel Sánchez awarded the BASF-ICIQ Prize for Best Entrepreneur for his spin-off Nanobots Therapeutics

Samuel Sánchez in his laboratory at the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia.

Today marked the second edition of the BASF-ICIQ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards, which reward excellence in the field of chemistry. The biomedical company Nanobots Therapeutics S.L., led by Prof. Samuel … Read more

June 16, 2023

New Faster Future campaign tackles bacterial resistance

IBEC dedicates the 4th edition of its fundraising program, Faster Future, to develop novel strategies to treat infections and diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Specifically, the research seeks to fight … Read more

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

BLADDEBOTS nanobots make their way into schools through the Nanoinventum outreach project

BLADDEBOTS is a project led by IBEC researcher Samuel Sánchez, focused on developing nanorobots to treat bladder cancer. To transmit BLADDEBOTS research to society, the researcher has collaborated with the … Read more

May 16, 2023

IBEC strengthens its commitment to improve research assessment

IBEC recently signed the adhesion to DORA, the Declaration on Research Assesment that recognizes the need to improve the ways in which academic research results are evaluated. In the same … Read more

May 11, 2023May 11, 2023

European funding to take anti-inflammatory nanomedicines from the lab to society

IBEC researcher Giuseppe Battaglia has received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. It is a prestigious funding awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and societal potential … Read more

May 8, 2023

Daniel Navajas: 30 years dedicated to mechanobiology

Last May 5, on the occasion of Professor Daniel Navajas’ retirement, the IBEC held the symposium Before Mechanobiology had a name. The event paid tribute to the IBEC researcher’s exciting … Read more

May 5, 2023

Vitala, IBEC’s spin-off, selected for the WomenTechEU programme

Vitala, a spin-off co-founded by IBEC researchers Irene Marco Rius and María Alejandra Ortega, is one of the 134 European companies selected for the WomenTechEU program. It is an initiative … Read more