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Samuel Sánchez wins FPdGi award for scientific research

samuelsanchezIBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez is this year’s winner of the Premio Fundación Princesa de Girona Investigación Científica for his advances in in the field of nanotechnology.

Samuel’s work was recognised in particular for his pioneering design of self-propelled nanorobots that could improve the accuracy of drug delivery, as well as having potential environmental applications.

This year is the sixth edition of the national FPdGi Awards, which are given by the Fundación Princesa de Girona and which recognise the innovative and exemplary careers of young people between the ages of 16 and 35.

PhD Thesis defence: Cristina Vergara

Papel regulador de la proteína priónica celular en la enfermedad de Alzheimer y uso de gamma-péptidos como potenciales agentes terapéuticos

PhD Thesis defence: Cristina Vergara

Papel regulador de la proteína priónica celular en la enfermedad de Alzheimer y uso de gamma-péptidos como potenciales agentes terapéuticos

IBEC’s Annual Report 2014 now available

webnewcovers_annreport14The English version of the Annual Report 2014 is now available to view online or download as a PDF.

In 2014, IBEC achieved, among other things:
– six Nature group papers, including a Nature Materials cover;
– 98 indexed journal papers in total, 77% of them in the first quartile;
– 12 PhD theses defended;
– two more ERC grants.
You can find all this and more in the Annual Report, which details the basic and translational research activities pursued by the institute in 2014, as well as the year’s news and scientific highlights, institutional alliances, tech transfer and clinical translation, and communications activities. A brand new section in this year’s edition covers IBEC’s Strategic Plan for the period 2014-2017 and the three areas of application in bioengineering.

IBEC Seminar: Thomas Graf

Mechanisms of transcription factor induced transdifferentiation and reprogramming to pluripotency

IBEC Seminar: Thomas Graf

Mechanisms of transcription factor induced transdifferentiation and reprogramming to pluripotency

Fira Recerca en Directe 2015

  Els propers dies 8, 9,10 i 11 d’abril, en el marc de la 13a edició de la Fira «Recerca en directe», investigadors de diversos centres de recerca de Catalunya … Read more

Fira Recerca en Directe 2015

  Els propers dies 8, 9,10 i 11 d’abril, en el marc de la 13a edició de la Fira «Recerca en directe», investigadors de diversos centres de recerca de Catalunya … Read more

A new mechanism in cell communication that promotes cancer metastasis

Xavier Trepat_lab1Pioneering international study supported by the Obra Social “la Caixa” opens new possibilities to control metastasis

At a press conference at the Obra Social “la Caixa”’s Palau Macaya earlier today, Xavier Trepat, group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Enric Banda, director of the department of Science and Environment of the Obra Social ”la Caixa”, and Josep Samitier, director of IBEC, described a study published in Nature Cell Biology which sheds new light on how to control metastasis.