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August 16, 2017September 14, 2016

Ferrer, IBEC and Mind the Byte join forces to study new molecules against cancer metastasis

The study will take as a starting point the pioneering research conducted by IBEC’s Xavier Trepat on how cadherins interact in metastasis

The pharmaceutical company Ferrer has created a consortium with the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the bioinformatics company Mind the Byte, located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB), to study the development of new therapeutic molecules against cancer metastasis.

The work will follow the research on cadherin interaction and its role in cells that cause metastasis conducted by Dr. Xavier Trepat, ICREA professor at IBEC and one of the few scientists to have won three grants from the European Research Council (ERC).

October 25, 2016September 9, 2016

Postdoctoral Position in Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering

The Biomimetic systems for cell engineering group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral Researcher candidate to participate in the development of the project “Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering and Neuro-Immuno-Gastroenterology: Evaluation and characterization of the intestinal barrier in a three-dimensional model of human intestine on hydrogel matrix.

October 13, 2016September 9, 2016

Cells move en masse towards rigid tissues

A new phenomenon, collective durotaxis, opens new avenues to control tumor growth and improve wound healing

In a study published today in the journal Science, researchers at IBEC have shown that several types of cells are attracted to the most rigid areas of tissues. The discovery contradicts the traditional view that cell movement is guided primarily by variations in the chemical concentration of proteins and ions.

September 9, 2016September 5, 2016

Help make IBEC’s photo a winner!

Lorenzo Albertazzi and ‘Gripin’ the virus have made it into the 2016 AXA Research Fund Photo Contest, a competition that challenges scientists to capture their AXA Research Fund project in a single image.

Lorenzo’s photo (left) – taken at IBEC with the help of the Communcications Team – shows him grappling with the ‘virus’, which have the ability to mutate, change, and become resistant to treatments.

With AXA funding, his research group at IBEC is creating resistance-free therapies based on nanofibers that can wrap around a virus like yarn, stopping disease from spreading. “I’d like viruses to be as big as the one in the photo,” says Lorenzo. “It would make our job a lot easier!”

The photo, along with 13 other semi-finalists, has been posted to a dedicated Facebook gallery at which the public can vote during September by “Liking” a photo.

September 2, 2016

Wikipedia entries for IBEC

IBEC now has Wikipedia entries in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Wikipedia is the seventh most-visited website in the world and the largest encyclopedia ever, with 5,200,000 entries in English alone. The fifteen year-old website has been described as the ‘largest collaborative effort in the history of mankind’.

As with all Wikipedia entries, the IBEC page is a ‘living’ page, and will be expanded and improved over time as the institute’s history progresses.

With these new entries, IBEC joins the category “Research institutes in Catalonia” of the free online encyclopedia, in which other centres in the Catalan research system are already present.

September 27, 2016August 2, 2016

PhD Position in Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches

Application Deadline: 15/08/2016
Ref: PH-PG

The Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Predoctoral candidate to participate in the in the photo physical characterization of photoisomerizable muscarinic ligands to control slow wave activity with light.

September 27, 2016August 1, 2016

PhD Position in Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies

Application Deadline: 15/08/2016
Ref: PD-ET

The Bacterial Infections: antimicrobial therapies group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Predoctoral candidate to participate in the research in infectious diseases, understand the bacterial virulence and identification of new strategies to treat bacterial infections.

July 31, 2016July 26, 2016

“Crean moléculas que restauran la visión en retinas degeneradas”

There’s been lots of press coverage of Pau Gorostiza’s group’s recent Nature Communications paper describing their development of molecules that can be applied as light-regulated molecular prostheses to help restore vision in cases of retinal degeneration.

July 26, 2016

IBEC a key member of the new RIS3CAT communities

IBEC is a member of one of five ‘communities’ that will receive funding as part of the RIS3CAT intiative, which aims to enable and promote large projects in Catalonia that combine industry and research.

In the launch meeting at the headquarters of RIS3CAT coordinator ACCIO – the government’s agency for competitivity in business – on Monday, Minister for Business and Enterprise Jordi Baiget, who chaired the event alongside Director General of Industry Nuria Betriu, declared RIS3CAT “the greatest ever effort for innovation in Catalonia”.

IBEC is a member of NEXTHEALTH, one of two health-related RIS3CAT communities among the five, all of which bring together businesses, research organizations, hospitals, and other major players to form a critical mass to work in collaboration on large-scale projects to boost innovation.

July 27, 2016July 22, 2016

“La Masia de la ciencia”

This summer’s Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC 2016), a new initiative that aims to stimulate scientific talent among young people, was covered in La Vanguardia today, with the photo accompanying the article taken at IBEC.