On Monday IBEC had a visit from Dr. Toni Andreu, the Director of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), the body which coordinates the Fund for Health of Spain (FIS) for the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Knowledge.
IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alícia Casals represented Catalonia’s scientific community when she and two doctors, a psychiatrist and a biomedical researcher read out a poem at the Concert per la Llibertat at Camp Nou on 29th June.
On Monday, at a ceremony in Sabadell, IBEC received its funding award for an outreach project from the Fundació Antigues Caixes Catalanes (formerly Unnim Caixa) of the BBVA.
IBEC’s former director Josep A. Planell is the first scientist from Spain to be awarded the prestigious George Winter prize of the European Society for Biomaterials.
Wednesday’s IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine welcomed 230 participants, almost 40 of them coming from outside IBEC from places as far afield as Belgium and Colombia.
At yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Josep Samitier was appointed as the new Director of IBEC.
There’s just over a week to go until IBEC celebrates its sixth annual symposium in bioengineering and nanomedicine.
The picture shows masters student Alejandro Calvo and senior researcher Beatriz Giraldo at this week’s “Recerca en directe” science fair in La Pedrera, where IBEC’s Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group are taking part with an activity that helps participants record and process their own biomedical signals.
On Friday 12th April IBEC participated in an event and press conference to present the first results of the projects promoted by the five research centres included in the Obra Social ”la Caixa”’s pilot scheme for funding research evaluation and technology transfer.
Several of IBEC’s investigators are taking part in major events and meetings or appearing in the media in the next few days.