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.
At Friday 28th March’s official ceremony for the 2013 round of RecerCaixa funding, IBEC junior group leader Elisabeth Engel will represent all the winners and centres as the investigator chosen to speak at the event.
On Friday the ceremony took place of the first ever Asociación Catalana de Entidades de Investigación (ACER) Award, which was given to three of the key people who made possible the existence of the European Research Council (ERC). IBEC’s own ERC-supported scientists attended the ceremony, as did IBEC director Josep Samitier, who is on the Board of Directors of ACER.
IBEC’s director Josep Samitier and Robotics group leader Alícia Casals are on the scientific committee of one of the main events of the Generalitat’s Tercentenary celebrations, which will attract hundreds of people from all over the world.
As coordinator of the Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanoMed Spain), IBEC is co-organising this week’s 7th Annual Conference of Biomedical Research Technology Platforms in Barcelona.
Montse López and Pau Gorostiza, PhD student and group leader in IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, have participated in the development of “Can you make your mobile smaller?”, a virtual experiment in collaboration with IrsiCaixa’s Unit for Public Engagement on Health Research.
Awards will support researchers’ work on a system to aid rehabilitation in children, and improved healing in shoulder injuries
Any researcher or industry worker who’s trying to find a scientific service, tool or technology available in Barcelona now need look no further than BioCores@BCN, a new directory and search engine, in which IBEC’s Nanotechnology Platform is listed.
Ángel Raya, ICREA professor and head of IBEC’s Control of Stem Cell Potency group, is to take up up the role of director of Barcelona’s Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB).
The Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group starts the year with good news from the European Research Council – they’ve been awarded both a new Consolidator Grant and a Proof of Concept award.