Institutional news

An IBEC group leader was elected as president of the Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica (SEIB) at its annual meeting (CASEIB) in San Sebastián last week.

Twenty members of the general public had their minds blown this morning at IBEC’s Open Doors Day, which was entitled ‘La Bioenginyeria per a Tothom’.

Yesterday saw the launch in Madrid of a new NanoMed Spain publication, ‘Hoja por la Innovación en Nanomedicina en España’ (White Paper on Innovation in Nanomedicine in Spain), which diagnoses the country’s R&D&I capacities in the field so far and presents the potential opportunities, challenges and recommendations for the future.

IBEC now has its very own YouTube channel, where viewers can watch a host of videos related to the institute and aimed at a variety of audiences.

At the end of September representatives from IBEC, which coordinates and manages the Connect-EU Nanobio+Nanomed group, participated in the Connect-EU conference at Barcelona’s World Trade Centre.

This month, the three candidates selected by the Scientific Advisory Board for IBEC’s new Tenure Track scheme started in their new capacity as Junior Group Leaders.

The IBEC-coordinated European project MySpine, which reached its midpoint at the end of August, received a positive appraisal at its first Annual Review in Brussels in June.

Britain and Catalonia may not agree about everything, especially when it comes to football, but one area in which they demonstrate a united front is nanotechnology. The UK is one of the three leading countries in the world for health-related nanotechnology, while in Catalonia, nanobiomedicine has become a particular research strength, with Barcelona the second city in the world with more scientific publications on the subject after Boston.

18 young researchers from all over Europe have been learning new skills yesterday and today in the lab sessions part of the second “Interrogations at the Biointerface” Advanced Summer School, hosted by IBEC.