Forging relations: Josep Samitier accompanies president of Catalonia on Israel mission
IBEC director Josep Samitier is one of 20 scientists who have accompanied President Artur Mas on his official visit to Israel.
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Pfizer award for IBEC/Vall d’Hebron collaboration on hemophilia
A Spanish collaboration, including researchers from IBEC, has been awarded the prestigious ASPIRE Europe 2013 Hemophilia Research Award from Pfizer, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company.
IBEC and IrsiCaixa collaborate in EU project to bring nanotechnology to the classroom
On 7th-9th November IrsiCaixa’s Unit of Public Engagement on Health Research, in a collaboration with IBEC, will host two workshops to help teachers who want to introduce the concept of nanotechnology to their pupils. The initiative is part of the European project “NanOpinion”, which aims to monitor public opinion on nanotechnology, paying special attention to public education.
A helping hand for budding surgeons
A prototype developed by IBEC’s Robotics group and their collaborators was presented at the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy’s 22nd Annual Congress in Berlin last month.
IBEC organized the III Meeting of the Spanish Chapter ESB
Yesterday the III Spanish Chapter Meeting of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) was celebrated and organized by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). The event took place at the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) and hosted 60 people from research centres, hospitals and universities throughout Spain.
IBEC crowdfunding project now accepting donations!
IBEC’s very first venture into crowdfunding, which has come about as an initiative of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, goes live today on the crowdfunding website www.goteo.org.
B·Debate reviews what nanotechnology can offer health
The B·Debate event ‘Nanotechnologies in Health: Current Challenges and Future Prospects’, organised by ICN and IBB in collaboration with IBEC, UABCEI and Nanonica, is taking place at CosmoCaixa this week.
World experts convene for nanomedicine workshop
Today, experts in nanomedicine from all over the world convened to discuss the state-of-the-art of the field at the 2nd UAB Campus d’Excel·lència Internacional (CEI) Workshop on Nanomedicine.
First BBVA-funded outreach event a great success
Residents of Barcelona’s Sant Antoni district learnt all about robotics yesterday evening at ‘Ens envaeixen els robots!’, a talk given by the Robotic’s group’s Xavier Giralt at the Biblioteca Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver.
IBEC research on a journal cover again
The October cover of Current Opinion in Cell Biology (the reference opinion journal in cell biology, with impact factor 12) features research by IBEC’s Pere Roca and Xavier Trepat, who together with Raimon Sunyer from the UB have published a review paper in the issue, “Mechanical guidance of cell migration: lessons from chemotaxis”.