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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.

Public event on IBEC research into light-controlled drugs

SONY DSCAs 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.

New hope against growing threat of antibiotic resistance

torrents feb 2015 image smThe 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.

T5: Informativo Matinal, 17/03/15

telecincosam14IBEC 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.

Tenders

La Fundació Institut Bioenginyeria de Catalunya està adherida a la Plataforma de Serveis de Contractació Pública de la Generalitat de Catalunya. És per aquest motiu que a partir del mes … Read more