IBEC Seminar

Reprogramming the Factory of Life to Target the Delivery of mRNA via Helical Chirality Virgil Percec, Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Homochiral helical self-organizations are known at the macroscopic level in nature, art, architecture and science for thousands of years . However, molecular helicity was discovered in proteins ... Read more

Biomaterials for cancer study and accelerate wound healing Dr. Andy Tay , Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Magnetic hydrogels are materials containing magnetic microparticles which help transduce magnetic fields into mechanical forces. In the presence of a static magnet, the stiffness of magnetic hydrogels can be altered to investigate the reversible ... Read more

Supercomputer-based virtual humans: the future of medicine NOW Mariano Vázquez, ELEM Biotech & Barcelona Supercomputing Center In this talk we are going to address the potential of supercomputer-based virtual humans for the biomedical realm. Virtual Humans are computational "avatars" of a patient, which combines data with a mathematical model which are used to predict (as opposed ... Read more

New technologies for accelerating drug discovery and preclinical testing Maria Majellaro, Chief Scientific Officer of Celtarys. Abi J Vazquez. Co-founder and COO of DIVERSA Technologies SL. Bruno K Rodiño-Janeiro, Chief Scientific Officer of BFlow.   Celtarys, DIVERSA and BFlow belong to the Galician biotechnology ecosystem and are dedicated to provide cutting-edge technologies applied in different ... Read more