Abans del: 31/10/2018
Ref: PT-XR
La Posició de a Promotor Tecnològic té com a objectiu donar support a la unitat de Transferência Tecnològica de l’ Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) en el procés d’obtenció de l’acreditació del segell TECNIO. Tant en la fase de presentació de la proposta com en la posterior d’implantació del sistema de qualitat fins a passar l’auditoria adient.
Sensing the matrix: transducing mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus
Sensing the matrix: transducing mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus
Sensing the matrix: transducing mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus
Sensing the matrix: transducing mechanical signals from integrins to the nucleus
IBEC Director Josep Samitier is one of the experts quoted in an article in ARA magazine yesterday that reviews the university system in Catalonia.
On Friday 19th October, an event to round off the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera’s ‘Bojos per la ciència’ (‘Crazy for Science’) initiative took place at IBEC.This year was the first year that IBEC took part in the ‘Bojos’ initiative, with a course devoted to bioengineering. 25 students have been coming to IBEC on eighteen Saturdays between January and October to attend in theoretical and practical sessions about the main areas of research in bioengineering applied to health: controlled drug release, biomaterials, regenerative therapies and the medicine of the future, among other topics. In addition, the students participated in complementary workshops where they looked at ethical questions and scientific communication, as well as getting hands-on experience of the research laboratory environment.
Application Deadline: 15/12/2018
Ref: PhD-JS
The Nanobioengineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Pre-doctoral Researcher to work in the project “Brain-on-chip & 3D printing”. Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a position funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project “ASCTN-Training” within the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, starting March 1 2019. The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a maximum period of 3 years (PhD student) and will be placed at the Nanobioengineering group of IBEC (Barcelona, Spain).
The embryonic stem cells that form faces – neural crest cells – use an unexpected mechanism to develop our facial features, according to a new UCL-led study involving IBEC researchers.
By identifying how these cells move, the researchers’ findings could help understand how facial defects, such as cleft palate and facial palsy, occur.
This newly described mechanism is likely to be found in other cell movement processes, such as cancer invasion during metastasis or wound healing, so the findings may pave the way to developing a range of new therapies for these, too.
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