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Annual meeting of biomedical research technology platforms

platforms15marchThe Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanomedSpain), led by IBEC director Josep Samitier, is once again participating in the annual conference of Spain’s Plataformas Tecnológicas de Investigación Biomédica.

At the meeting, which is being held at the Hotel Crowne Plaze today and tomorrow, the keynote speaker invited by NanoMed Spain is Sylvia Bove, CEO of EIT Health. In addition, the Platform is organizing a parallel session on innovation in nanomedicine, in which various projects funded by the European programme H2020 will be presented. These success stories will include IBEC’s Elena Martinez’s ERC Consolidator grant to use biomimetic systems to study intestinal epithelium related diseases, as well as the SME Neos Surgery, which has received funding to complete the development of a new device for spine surgery.

A gathering of the industrial biotech sector in Catalonia

cataloniabioMore than 250 companies and public organizations met at Thursday’s Nit de CataloniaBio 2016, the annual forum for the sector, which this year had a special focus on the 10th anniversary of organiser CataloniaBio.

CataloniaBio is an association of companies, but the most relevant public institutions and research centers were invited, and IBEC was represented by director Josep Samitier and Xavier Rúbies and Diana Gonzalez from the Technology Transfer unit.

Also present at the event was the conseller of Health, Antoni Comín, the conseller of Business and Knowledge, Jordi Baiget, CataloniaBio president and Reig Jofre CEO Ignasi Biosca, and CataloniaBio vice-president and Kern Pharma’s Director of Strategy and Development Clara Campàs.

“Trabajar con cápsulas mil veces más pequeñas que el cabello humano”

sanchezstuttgartSamuel Sanchez and the part of his lab that resides at the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart feature in a chapter of a video series by El Pais, La Carrera Especial. In the video, Andrea Escobar, chemistry student Universidad Complutense de Madrid, sends 48 hours in Samuel’s lab learning about his work on nanorobots.