Esta semana, más de 200 investigadores de todo el país se hallan en Madrid para la IV Conferencia Anual de las Plataformas Tecnológicas de Investigación Biomédica, que incluye la Plataforma Española de Nanomedicina (NanoMed Spain), gestionada por el IBEC.
IBEC’s recently completed FP7 project on technology transfer, Nano2Market, was featured in the recent Commission’s Research*EU magazine supplement (Vol. 30, December 2010/January 2011).
Ayer, 23 estudiantes de la Escuela Técnica Profesional del Clot disfrutaron de una visita al IBEC y participaron en algunasactividades de laboratorio como parte de la iniciativa ESCOLAB.
El nuevo programa RecerCaixa ha anunciado hoy que el proyecto ‘Desarrollo de ligandos modulados por luz para la regulación no invasiva y remota del dolor neuropático’ del jefe de grupo ICREA Pau Gorostiza ha sido elegido uno de los primeros veinte proyectos que va a recibir financiación.
En el primer acto de lo que se espera que sea una colaboración continuada, este fin de semana el IBEC se une al Arts Santa Mònica de Barcelona y al British Council para organizar una actividad especial para considerar un laboratorio científico desde un punto de vista cultural.
Robotics group leader Alícia Casals appeared last week in Catalan local paper El 9 Nou, which covers the Osona/Ripollès and Vallès Oriental areas. Alícia gave a lecture about this century’s challenges in robotics at the 3rd Workshop on Mechatronics at the University of Vic on 16 February.
Pau Gorostiza features in a short video produced by funders RecerCaixa about the project ‘Development of light-modulated ligands for remote, non-invasive regulation of neuropathic pain’, of which he is the coordinator.
On 2 February the kick-off meeting of a transnational project coordinated by postdoc Beatriz Prieto of the Nanobioengineering group took place at IBEC. The project, ‘Development of innovative tools for Ochratoxin A’, will evaluate and tackle the threat to humans and animals of exposure to mycotoxins (fungal metabolites) in food.
On a tour of the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) earlier this week, the Minister for Education, Ángel Gabilondo, paid a visit to IBEC’s Nanobioengineering lab and spoke at length to Associate Director Josep Samitier about his group’s research.
A ‘who’s who’ of Spain’s major players in nanomedicine and a record of this new field’s most notable achievements, “Nanomedicine in Spain 06-10”, was launched on 2 February.