The two IBEC-led CIBER-BBN tissue regeneration projects that were earmarked for funding by the EU’s ERA-NET EuroNanoMed initiative last year (see www.ibecbarcelona.eu/IBEC-News/funding-success-for-two-ibec-projects.html) have both received the national support they need to get started.
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.
Los 55 investigadores que recibieron financiación del programa de recaudación de fondos La Marató de TV3 2010, entre ellos Pau Gorostiza del IBEC, asistieron el pasado miércoles a una ceremonia en la UAB donde se otorgaron las ayudas en presencia del Conseller de Salut Boi Ruiz, la Rectora de la UAB Ana Ripoll y el fundador de La Marató de TV3 Enrique Marín.
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.