Senior researcher Eduard Torrents appears several times in the July edition of the newspaper of the Associació Catalana de Fibrosi Quística, Per a Vèncer la Fibrosi Quística.
This month, the three candidates selected by the Scientific Advisory Board for IBEC’s new Tenure Track scheme started in their new capacity as Junior Group Leaders.
The IBEC-coordinated European project MySpine, which reached its midpoint at the end of August, received a positive appraisal at its first Annual Review in Brussels in June.
An IBEC researcher has collaborated on a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology that outlines an effective new way to characterize and improve nanoparticle catalysts, which play essential roles in biomedicine, industry and everyday life by affecting the rate at which chemical reactions take place.Nanoparticle catalysts are used in making polymers and biofuels, synthesising new drugs, pollution control devices and fuel cell technology, and both characterising them and finding more effective ones is vital.
IBEC group leader José Antonio del Río contributed to an Expansión article from August about funding for research, in particular neuroscience, for which 2012 was a “Year of” in Spain.
IBEC researchers have stuck tissue engineering gold with the creation of a new ‘smart’ biomaterial that triggers angiogenesis by providing the biochemical and mechanical cues needed for the process to begin.Researchers in Josep Planell’s Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, in a paper led by Elisabeth Engel, reveal their calcium phosphate glass/PLA composite that itself promotes the mobilization and differentiation of endothelial progenitor cells – those that become the cells making up the lining of blood vessels.
“In regenerative medicine, successful tissue repair hinges on being able to recreate the right environment, so that the biomaterial not only acts as a scaffold for the new tissue but also contributes to the activation of the regeneration process,” explains Elizabeth.
Senior research associate Jérôme Noailly of the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group features in an article about mobility and the opportunities offered to international researchers in the latest edition of Informacions, a monthly magazine on research, teaching and institutional activities at the UPC.
The Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group published their latest results in the quest to understand how the cells in our bodies collectively migrate in Nature Physics this week.In studying the motion of cell clusters, the researchers detected evidence of wave-like crests of deformation launched at the edges of the clusters and propagating from cell to cell at roughly twice the speed at which cells were moving.
Media coverage of the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group’s work in Nature Physics this week:
Media coverage of the Nanoscale Bioelectrical Characterisation group’s work in Nature Materials this week:
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