Application Deadline: 15/09/2016
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The Pluripotent stem cells and activation of endogenous tissue programs for organ regeneration group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Veterinay Technician to work in the framework of a project focused in the study and identification of epigenetic cues guiding kidney regeneration.
IBEC Director Josep Samitier was visiting Peru last week as part of a delegation of representatives from Severo Ochoa and Maria de Maeztu research centres in Spain.The visit to Lima, organised by MINECO, which bestows the two types of Excellence awards, aimed to bring together the top Spanish institutions with those of the Pacific Alliance – Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
Each of the eight Spanish centres presented their research and international strategies, and they had the chance to hear about the same from Pacific Alliance centers, as well as identifying potential synergies.
Muy Interesante magazine this week features an article about organoids, three-dimensional cell/ tissue cultures which mimic organ structure and function, and quotes Nuria Montserrat as an expert opinion.
Application Deadline: 05/06/2016
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Postdoctoral candidates to apply for the 2016 of the calls of the Marie Curie.
Application Deadline:
30/05/2016
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Head of Tech Transfer Office whose mission will be to facilitate the transfer of inventions from IBEC’s Research Groups to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national and global basis, being aligned with and boosting the IBEC’s Research Programme 2015-2018. The successful candidate will run a team of two people and the Unit will report to IBEC’s Managing Director.
The two recent papers from Eduard Torrents and Antonio Juárez on how bacteria can cause chronic infections and new bacterial virulence markers in E. coli respectively got some press coverage this week.DNA Nanotechnology: from its Applications to the Self-Assembly in Alternative Solvents
DNA Nanotechnology: from its Applications to the Self-Assembly in Alternative Solvents
The recent Sci Rep paper by the IBEC/ISGlobal joint Nanomalaria unit got lots of news coverage this week, the latest being in La Vanguardia’s Big Vang science section (left).
Scientists from IBEC, in collaboration with the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Spain and two other groups in the USA, have made a big leap in heart regeneration advances by achieving heart grafts from human pluripotent stem cells for the first time in less than one month.The collaborators, working in Spain and the USA, describe in the journal Biomaterials how they decellularized human hearts, all of which had been determined not suitable for transplantation by the Spanish National Transplant Organization. They left the extracellular matrix, the structure that provides cells with structural and biochemical support, intact.