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February 26, 2016April 9, 2015

IBEC’s Annual Report 2014 now available

The 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.

April 8, 2015

IBEC Seminar: Thomas Graf

Mechanisms of transcription factor induced transdifferentiation and reprogramming to pluripotency

April 8, 2015

IBEC Seminar: Thomas Graf

Mechanisms of transcription factor induced transdifferentiation and reprogramming to pluripotency

August 1, 2017April 7, 2015

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

April 7, 2015

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

August 26, 2015April 1, 2015

A new mechanism in cell communication that promotes cancer metastasis

Pioneering 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.

April 8, 2015March 23, 2015

“España entra en el proyecto europeo EIT sobre salud”

An article and interview with Josep Samitier in El Mundo presents EIT Health and the Spanish node.

April 8, 2015March 23, 2015

Public event on IBEC research into light-controlled drugs

As Spain’s expert in optogenetics and optopharmacology, IBEC group leader Pau Gorostiza will be the star of the next “Diálogos por la Ciencia” event in Madrid next week.

An initiative of the Fundación “la Caixa”, “Diálogos por la Ciencia” are a new way of communicating science to the public, in which prestigious scientists with international recognition are interviewed live in front of a audience of the public by a renowned journalist.
ICREA research professor Pau, who heads IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, will talk about his work developing light-controlled drugs at the event in Madrid on 25th March.

October 20, 2015March 18, 2015

New hope against growing threat of antibiotic resistance

The increasing prevalence of bacteria that are resistant to current antibiotics pose an escalating threat to human health. Now, researchers in Barcelona have identified a molecule with huge potential as a new type of antibacterial agent

Access to effective antibiotics is essential in all health systems. Their use has reduced childhood mortality and increased life expectancy, and they are crucial for invasive surgery and treatments such as cancer chemotherapy and organ transplants.

April 8, 2015March 17, 2015

T5: Informativo Matinal, 17/03/15

IBEC research was highlighted in the morning news on Telecinco today when new group leader Samuel Sánchez’s nanorobots were presented as a potential future substitute for chemotherapy.