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Kick-off meeting of the Connect-EU Nanobio+Nanomed working group

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connect-eu IBECLast Thursday saw the kick-off meeting at IBEC of the Connect-EU Nanobio+Nanomed Working Group (WG). An initiative that aims to promote and reinforce Catalan participation in the EU’s instruments for research funding such as FP7 and the future FP8, the Connect-EU network of WGs covers a range of sectors, from the internet of the future to food technology and processing.

IBEC researcher receives Pablo Motos award

Eduard Torrents, senior researcher in IBEC’s Microbial Biotechnology and Host-pathogen Interaction group, has been announced as a recipient of the 2010 Pablo Motos award from the Federación Española de Fibrosis Quística (Spanish Association of Cystic Fibrosis) this week.

First issue of INSIDEIBEC now available


The new year sees the launch of IBEC’s newsletter, INSIDEIBEC. This quarterly bulletin will be a roundup of scientific, institutional and project news, and features covering IBEC’s personnel and their achievements.  It will also serve as a reference about forthcoming scientific activities such as seminars and workshops, training opportunities and events from the social side of the IBEC community.

Celebrating women in science

Women science

Women scienceAlícia Casals, head of IBEC’s Robotics group and one of the researchers included in the exhibition “16 Catalan Women Scientists” (16 científiques catalanes), will take part in a round table discussion with other participants on 14 December entitled “Women, Society and Science: Breaking the glass ceiling”.

El juego de la regeneración

Afrontando la morfogénesis de tejidos en humanos

El 25% de los pacientes europeos esperando un donante mueren antes de que se encuentre uno, y lo normal es que en un año el número de donantes disponibles se corresponda aproximadamente al 15% de los que se necesitan. El proyecto europeo AngioScaff, que celebra su reunión anual esta semana en Barcelona, busca soluciones a éste y otros problemas relacionados con las enfermedades degenerativas y la medicina regenerativa.

Race for life

carrera IBEC

carrera IBECOn Sunday 24 October, 21 women scientists and staff from IBEC struggled out of bed at an ungodly hour to take part in Barcelona’s sixth annual Carrera de la Mujer, a five-kilometre race through the streets in aid of charity.