Noticias institucionales

IBEC director Josep Planell’s research group has changed its name and is now known as the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group.

Wednesday last week saw the biannual meeting at the institute of the steering committee of the Spanish NanoMedicine Platform (NanoMed Spain), which is coordinated by IBEC.

El Parque Científico de Barcelona (PCB), donde se halla el IBEC, acaba de lanzar una nueva plataforma para dar a conocer las actividades de las 75 empresas y tres institutos de investigación que trabajan ahí.

A new spin-off company created by IBEC and the UPC will focus on the manufacture and marketing of surgical systems.

Rob Surgical Systems Inc., a technology company driven by IBEC group leader Alicia Casals and senior researcher Manuel Frigola, as well as Josep Amat of the Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Department of the UPC, was approved by the university’s governing council on Friday.

Two IBEC-led tissue regeneration projects have been selected for funding by the EU’s ERA-NET EuroNanoMed initiative.

An arts and science initiative involving IBEC and Barcelona’s Arts Santa Mònica centre, which took place earlier this year, has been awarded the Antoni Caparros Prize for Best Knowledge Transfer from the University of Barcelona.

El ministerio de Educación ha publicado la lista de los programas de doctorado que han recibido la acreditación de «Mención de Excelencia». Entre ellos se hallaban todos los programas de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) y la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) a los que pueden acceder los estudiantes de doctorado del IBEC.

Last week’s fourth annual IBEC symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine at the Hospital de Bellvitge attracted a record number of attendees, with more than a third coming from outside the institute. Experts in the various fields of IBEC’s research areas gathered to network and listen to the top-class speakers from Europe and beyond at the event on 18-19 October.

This Thursday, a conference entitled Avenços en recerca i tractament de patologia cardíaca i vascular (Advances in research and treatment of cardiac and vascular disease) organised by the Organització Catalana de Trasplantaments (OCATT) will take place in Barcelona.