Application Deadline: 15/11/2015
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The Smart Nano-Bio Devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for predoctoral candidates to develop the PhD thesis in Chemical Micro-Nanomotors.
Next week will be a full one at IBEC, with several important events on the agenda.Monday 28th September will see the arrival of Scientific Advisory Board for their annual two-day meeting with IBEC’s directorate. Among other things, the panel of experts from research and industry, who will be coming from as far afield as the USA and Singapore, will be reviewing the international candidates for the group leader and tenure track positions.
On Wednesday 30th September, IBEC’s 8th Annual Symposium will take place at Barcelona’s AXA auditorium.
IBEC group leader and ICREA Research Professor Pau Gorostiza will be taking part in the Barcelona version of European Researcher’s Night this Friday, 25th September.Held at the CCCB, the Nit Europea de la Recerca Barcelona will be in celebration of the Year of Light. At 20:00 Pau will take part in a round table moderated by BIOCAT on the subject of “Humans amb més llum: re-evolució humana gràcies a les noves tecnologies basades en la llum”.
Yesterday IBEC welcomed some of its partners from HT Cluster, a new alliance of industry, research centres and other bodies working in the health technologies sector in Catalonia, through its doors.IBEC Director Josep Samitier and researchers Elisabeth Engel, Xavier Puñet, Lucas Pedraz, Agustín Gutiérrez and Mateu Pla gave talks to the visitors, who represented some of the businesses and other organizations that form the cluster. Afterwards, Mateu led a tour of IBEC’s facilities.
An introduction by IBEC Director Josep Samitier begins a 9-page article in El Pais about the future of organ replacement in light of the advances in 3D printing. As biological materials can now be ‘printed’ as scaffolds that can be used for implants and tissue repair or organs, is the fabrication of entire functioning organs closer than ever? 
IBEC’s Pau Gorostiza is a quoted expert in an El Pais article about research into sonogenetics at the Salk, where researchers have produced worms with genetically modified nervous systems that can be controlled by sound waves.Print-and-Play Microfluidics
Print-and-Play Microfluidics
This morning, the 15 research projects that have been selected for funding under in the first CaixaImpulse call, including two IBEC projects, were presented at the Palau Macaya.Xavier Puñet, a PhD student in the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, presented Dermoglass, a dressing that stimulates revascularization in chronic wounds such as skin ulcers and promotes the formation of healthy skin. The other IBEC project selected for funding is RNRbiotics led by Eduard Torrents, group leader of the Bacterial infections: antibiotic therapy group, which aims to develop new antimicrobial agents effective against resistant bacterial infections, currently considered as one of the main threats to human health (World Health Organization).
The main goal of our group is to use Super Resolution Microscopy (nanoscopy) to visualize and track in living cells and tissues self-assembled nanomaterials with therapeutic potential (nanomedicine). The understanding … Read more