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IBEC participates in the Mater Project

Mater is a Fomento de las Artes y del Diseño (FAD) project for the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, born from the increasing importance of materials in the development of our society. It starts with the exhibition “Mater in progress. New materials, new industry”, which revolves around innovation and technological development through materials, and is on show at the Sala de Exposiciones FAD (plaça dels Àngels 5-6), from February 8 until April 28, 2008.

The Nanobioengineering group’s research in El Periódico

Last Monday 14 January, the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya highlighted the importance of research into stem cells for therapeutic applications, and specifically the research carried out at IBEC by the research group led by Prof. Josep Samitier, which studies micro/nanosystems for biomedical applications.

Presentación del IBEC en La Vanguardia

Con motivo del IBEC Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Symposium 2007 el pasado 7 de noviembre, donde el Instituto se presentó públicamente, el periódico La Vanguardia publicó el dia 8 de noviembre la noticia que reproducimos a continuación en su edición impresa:

IBEC en el diario Expansión

Bajo el titular El Institut de Bioenginyeria tendrá 150 investigadores, el diario Expansión publicó el pasado 8 de noviembre en su edición impresa una noticia sobre la presentación del IBEC el dia 7 de noviembre.

IBEC’s group on Bionanophotonics publishes article on cover page of ChemPhysChem

IBEC’s Bionanophotonics research line, led by Prof. María García-Parajo, together with researchers from Mesa+ Institute for Technology of the University of Twente (The Netherlands), the Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences (The Netherlands) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona) have been given the cover page of the July 16 ChemPhysChem issue (Volume 8 Issue 10).

The textbook Molecular Cell Biology selects a figure from a nanobioengineering researcher at IBEC

The prestigious reference textbook Molecular Cell Biology (Lodish et al.) has selected for its 6th edition (2008) a figure from the researcher at the nanobioengineering laboratory at the IBEC, Dr. Xavier Fernández-Busquets. Thanks to this important recognition of scientific excellence, the IBEC is the only Spanish institution appearing in the acknowledgements of the textbook, out of a total of 150 universitites and research centres.