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.
Biomechanics and mechanobiology group leader Damien Lacroix has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his research on finite element simulations of mechanobiology in tissue engineering.
A press conference to present BioNanoMed Catalunya, the IBEC-led alliance created to promote nanotechnology applied to healthcare and biotechnology, was held on Friday at the Museu Colet in Barcelona.
Some of IBEC’s research got some constructive feedback last week with the annual visit of members of the institute’s International Scientific Committee (ISC).
