[br] Heart regeneration in the zebrafish / Mechanisms of induced reprogramming to pluripotency / Disease modeling through induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells / Induced reprogramming to cardiogenic mesoderm / Bioengineering approach to heart muscle differentiation During embryo development, the potency of the zygote is deployed through coordinated and stereotypical changes in cell behaviors and processes … Read more
The Biomimetic systems for cell engineering group is a junior group under IBEC’s Tenure Track scheme. The “Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering” group is a multidisciplinary research group focussing its research activities on the development and application of new artificial systems that mimic tissue micro and nanofeatures for biomimetic in vitro assays. The use of … Read more
Xavier Serra Picamal, antes estudiante de doctorado en el grupo de Integración celular y dinámica de tejidos del IBEC, fue galardonado con el prestigioso premio Ramon Margalef por el mejor artículo científico derivado de una tesis doctoral en la ceremonia de la UB de ayer noche.Xavier ha recibido el premio por un artículo científico publicado en Nature Physics en 2012 bajo el título “Mechanical Waves during tissue expansion”, que describe un nuevo tipo de ondas mecánicas en la materia viva.
The Nanomalaria group is a joint unit affiliated with IBEC and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), located in the Esther Koplowitz Centre near Hospital Clínic (Barcelona). The current activity of the Nanomalaria group is focused on the development of nanomedicine-based systems to be applied to malaria prophylaxis, diagnosis and therapy. Methods for the … Read more
The group’s research addresses the design and development of advanced signal processing techniques and the interpretation of biomedical signals to improve non-invasive monitoring, diagnosis, disease prevention and pathology treatment. The group focuses its research in a translational way to promote the transfer of our scientific and technological contributions. Currently, our prototypes are used in hospitals for research … Read more
Former Members Dr. Jérôme Noailly | Principal Investigator Now: SIMBIOSYS (Simulation, Imaging and Modelling for Biomedical Systems), UPF Dr. Damien Lacroix | Group Leader Now: University of Sheffield Biomechanics (spine, lower limbs); Mutiphysics (cartilage, intervertebral disc, artery); Biophysics (intervertebral disc nutrition, cytokines); Computational analyses (finite element element, numerical optimisations, stochastic modelling); In vitro experiments (dynamic … Read more
Research in the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group is devoted to the development and knowledge transfer to industry of innovative biomaterials and scaffolds for tissue regeneration. We design, fabricate and characterize bioactive and biodegradable materials and we investigate their interactions with biological entities, both in terms of their fundamental aspects and with specific applications for … Read more
Hoy, La Vanguardia (izquierda) y el portal Interempresas.net informan que Rob Surgical Systems, la empresa spin-off de IBEC / UPC, ha comenzado la validación de Bitrack, su sistema robótico quirúrgico para la cirugía laparoscópica de mínima invasión.Con el objetivo de abordar las deficiencias actuales de la cirugía laparoscópica, el robot ha sido diseñado bajo la dirección técnica del Dr. Josep Amat (UPC) y el grupo de Robótica Alicia Casals (IBEC), con la dirección médica del Dr. Javier Magriñá de la Clínica Mayo de Arizona, un experto en robots quirúrgicos Da Vinci.
The goal of our research is to gain a deeper understanding of cellular and respiratory biomechanics to improve the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. The work is organized in two interrelated areas, focused on respiratory mechanics at both the systemic and the cellular level. We use basic and translational approaches in a multidisciplinary framework … Read more
La segunda edición del Día de Networking e Innovación (NID) tendrá lugar mañana (jueves) en el PCB. Su objetivo es crear un punto de referencia en la transferencia de conocimiento entre el mundo académico y el mundo empresarial que promueve la colaboración público-privada, los acuerdos de asociación y la innovación abierta.