The principles of advanced virtual reality-based neurorehabilitation Martina Maier, SPECS group How the training in virtual reality and based on principles can support the recovery and diagnosis of disabilities after stroke. This thesis defense will take place on Monday, September 21st, at 11:00 hours. Location: The defense will be online. People are invited to attend upon ... Read more
Imaginenano2020 Online Imaginenano2020 organisers have been closely monitoring global developments of the COVID-19 virus since the start of the year. The health and safety of our speakers, exhibitors, participants and staff being our number one priority, we decided to postpone the in-person event to 2021 but organise a 3 days online event (Imaginenano2020 Online) merging 3 ... Read more
#LancetGate and its broader implications for the pandemic response and science dissemination Carlos Chaccour, ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona On May 22, 2020, the Lancet published an influential report on the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID conducted using a vast database owned by a company based in Chicago: Surgisphere. The world counted more than 300.000 ... Read more
Registration is now open for the 13th IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering for Future and Precision Medicine The 13th IBEC Symposium will focus on one of our three main areas of application of research at IBEC: Future and Precision Medicine. Although we would have loved to meet everyone in person, due to the COVID-19 outbreak and ... Read more
EIT Health Innovation Day IBEC is participating, once more, in the organization of this year’s EIT Health Innovation Day that will be held on-line from 31st October to 7th November 2020 (Dedication per day: 30-45 min. aprox. (flexible schedule)). Innovation Days (i-Days) promote health innovation among university students through dozens of one-to-two-day programmes held at academic ... Read more
Noninvasive multimodal analysis of thoracic bioimpedance and myographic signals for the assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Dolores Blanco, Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation Chronic respiratory diseases cause morbidity and premature mortality in adult population. In particular, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents a socioeconomic burden worldwide. COPD is usually evaluated by a spirometry test ... Read more
Mechanobiology of intestinal organoids Xavier Trepat, IBEC Intestinal organoids capture essential features of the intestinal epithelium such as folding of the crypt, spatial compartmentalization of different cell types, and cellular movements from crypt to villus-like domains. Each of these processes and their coordination in time and space requires patterned physical forces that are currently unknown. ... Read more
Bioengineering & MedTtech against cancer To meet the challenges in healthcare of the 21st century, it is important to combined bioengineering and MedTech to develop biological system analyze and treatment to treat specifically cancer cells and protect the rest of the patient’s body by limiting side effects. To accomplish this, we need to promote ... Read more
Lactate: unraveling the regenerative potential for cardiac tissue engineering Jesús Ordoño, Biometerials for regenerative therapies grouop This thesis defense will take place on the 25th November at 12.00 at Sala d'Actes de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME), Campus Diagonal Sud. It is possible to attend to this defense but it will also be ... Read more
The volitional brain in action: counterfactual error and the virtualization of memory Paul Verschure, IBEC Volitional motor control can be seen as the result of a gradual replacement of feedback by feedforward control. We have addressed this question from the perspective of an integrated architecture called the Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) theory of mind and ... Read more