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 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.
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’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. 
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.
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.
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.
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”.
IBEC senior researcher Mateu Pla is one of the first class of just 12 fellows chosen for the first Design Health Barcelona (d·HEALTH Barcelona) higher education programme, which starts this week.
Josep A. Planell, founding director of IBEC, was presented with the European Society of Biomaterials’ prestigious George Winter prize at their annual conference held in Madrid on Tuesday.