IBEC Director Josep Samitier is one of the four delegates for Spain nominated to take part in the new Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies (BNCT) of the OECD, which will start work in January 2015.
IBEC has been accepted into FECYT’s Red de Unidades de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación (UCC+i), a network of centres which have been accredited for their contribution to scientific culture.
The cover of Nature Materials featuring the Cellular and Respiratory Biomechanics group’s recent paper on how mammary cells detect tissue stiffening is out now.
This week the MIHealth Management and Clinical Innovation Forum is taking place at Fira Barcelona.
There’s nothing like sitting down with a relaxing café con leche while you’re networking. And that’s exactly what IBEC representatives did this afternoon when, together with the IRB, they took part in the inaugural event of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI)’s ‘Café amb la Recerca’ initiative, which was held at IBEC.
Six IBEC researchers are featured in CosmoCaixa museum’s new exhibition, Top Ciencia, that promotes scientific careers in a range of disciplines and gives visitors a glimpse into what it’s like to be a researcher today.
Today the 1st CERCA Conference brought together its 46 research centres at the new Centre Cultural in the former Mercat del Born.
Institute’s nano-bio-info-cogno expertise to determine medical and pharma products of the future
IBEC welcomed members of the Generalitat’s Department of Education and about 150 teachers through its doors yesterday evening, when the Department held its event ‘Presentació del Programa de Competències Científiques’ in a research institute for the first time.IBEC is one of the 13 research centres to be chosen to take part in Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera’s 2014 edition of Professors i Ciència, an excellence programme for the specialized training for secondary school science teachers.