Institutional news

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.

In his capacity of Director of HUBc, the Health Campus of Barcelona University, IBEC Director Josep Samitier presided over their first ever International Conference on Healthy Ageing, held in Barcelona last week.

Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya has been invited to take part in a virtual stem cell meeting today, alongside other experts from all over the world.

Junior group leader Pere Roca-Cusachs has received funding from 2012’s La Marató de TV3 for his project “Stromal stiffness in Tumor Progression”.

IBEC director Josep Samitier is one of 20 scientists who have accompanied President Artur Mas on his official visit to Israel.

A Spanish collaboration, including researchers from IBEC, has been awarded the prestigious ASPIRE Europe 2013 Hemophilia Research Award from Pfizer, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company.

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.