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IBEC and Genomica create joint unit for research and development of diagnostic devices

SONY DSCIBEC and Genomica S.A.U. (Grupo Zeltia), the leading Spanish company in molecular diagnostics, announce the creation of a Joint Research Unit that will provide an operational framework for close interaction on various R&D activities related to healthcare.

The unit, which will be located at IBEC’s headquarters in Barcelona, will see researchers and industry technicians sharing a host of know-how and in-house capabilities to develop and bring to market point-of-care diagnostic products and other medical devices and technologies.

ICREA Academia Award for IBEC group leader

SONY DSCGabriel Gomila, IBEC group leader and Associate Professor at the UB, has received an ICREA Academia Prize 2014 for excellence in research and capacity for leadership.

Bestowed annually by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) to encourage university professionals with an outstanding research career to stay in the Catalan university system, this year’s list of 30 winners is made up of 10 researchers from the UB, 8 from the UAB, 6 from the UPC, 3 from the UPF, 2 from Universitat de Girona and one from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Josep Samitier elected new president of ACER

acerboardLast week, IBEC Director Josep Samitier was named new president of the Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER).

Josep takes the reins from IFCO director Lluís Torner, who has held the position since 2009. The association’s first President was the Hon. Mr. Andreu Mas-Colell. The other members of the Director’s Board are ICAC’s Joan Gómez Pallarès (Secretary), Ramon Gomis (IDIBAPS), Jordi Galí (CREI) and Josep M. Monfort (IRTA) as members.

“Mini-kidney” scientist joins IBEC with ERC grant

nmontserratA new group leader at IBEC brings one of the most prestigious funding awards, an ERC Starting Grant, to continue her research into kidney regeneration

Nuria Montserrat (Barcelona, 1978) is one of just eight young researchers in Catalonia to have received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant at the end of 2014.

New IBEC group leader a top name in nanomotors

SONY DSCOne of the world’s top researchers – and a record-breaker – in the field of nano- and microrobots is coming to Barcelona to continue his career.

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) welcomes Dr. Samuel Sánchez (Terrassa, 1980), who is taking up a new Group Leader position there this month. He’ll be continuing his work on tiny self-propelling machines that not so long ago were still only fantasy – such as the miniature submarine Proteus, injected into a scientist’s bloodstream in the film Fantastic Voyage – and which are now becoming very much a reality.

EIT selects ‘Innolife’ consortium for new KIC on health

HealthIBEC is a core partner in the winning proposal for the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) on healthy living and active ageing.

InnoLife, a consortium of 144 European companies, research institutes and universities – including IBEC – has been selected by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) as the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for EIT Health.

Ramon Margalef Prize for former IBEC PhD student

xeviXavier Serra Picamal, formerly a PhD student in IBEC’s Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group, was awarded a prestigious Ramon Margalef Prize for the best paper derived from a doctoral thesis at a ceremony at the UB last night.

Xavier received the prize for a 2012 Nature Physics paper, “Mechanical Waves during tissue expansion”, which describes a new type of mechanical waves in living matter.

Second Networking & Innovation Day at PCB

The 2nd edition of the Networking & Innovation Day (NID) will take place tomorrow (Thursday) at the PCB.

Its objective is to create a benchmark in knowledge transfer between academia and business that promotes public-private collaboration, partnership agreements and open innovation.

IBEC hosting CASEIB2014 this week

Today is the first day of the annual congress of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (CASEIB 2014) which this year being organized by IBEC, as Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group leader Raimon Jané is SEIB’s president.

It is taking take place at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum until Friday 28th November.

Launch of health exhibition at Sant Feliu de Guíxols

Saturday saw the inauguration of the exhibition “Curar-se en salut” at the Museu d’Història de Sant Feliu de Guíxols, an initiative of the town’s council with the involvement of two CERCA centres, IBEC and Girona’s Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica (IDIBGi), among other bodies.

The vice-president of the Government of Catalonia, Joana Ortega i Alemany, and Minister of Health Boi Ruiz i Garcia were in attendance at the unveiling.