Representatives from IBEC attended Wednesday’s Connect-EU conference at Barcelona’s World Trade Center, which offered a platform for the gathering and exchange of information regarding participation in the 7th Framework Programme for R & D in Europe.
Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes last year, IBEC will play host to visitors from the University of Warwick on 22-23 September.
Today is the abstract submission deadline for posters for IBEC’s fourth annual symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine, which will be held on 18 October 2011.
A new event devoted to innovations in biomaterials and biomaterials processing will be held in Barcelona in October, with IBEC as sponsoring partner.
The MICINN meeting in Madrid which invited the directors of the Severo Ochoa shortlist was featured on the lunchtime news bulletin Telediario on national TV channel 1 yesterday (pictured) and appeared in several newspapers.
The end of July is the abstract submission deadline for the International Meeting on AFM in Life Sciences and Medicine (AFM BioMed), to be held in Paris on 23-27 August, for which IBEC group leader Daniel Navajas is on the organizing committee.
IBEC’s fourth annual symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine will be held on 18 October 2011, and this year for the first time the proceedings will include a day-long workshop on 19 October, Nanomedicine for healthy ageing, which will be co-organized with Biopol’H.
The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has been selected to go through to the next phase of the Ministry of Science and Innovation’s ‘Apoyo a Centros y Unidades de Excelencia Severo Ochoa’ programme, it was announced today.
Antoni Homs, a postdoc in the Nanobioengineering group, did his bit for the public understanding of science this week by participating in two events in collaboration with the Centre Cultural Sant Josep in Hospitalet.
On Monday 6 June, IBEC will present its activities to biomedical researchers and clinicians from IDIBELL (the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) to kick off an official collaboration agreement between the two institutes.