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Application Deadline:05/01/2017 7th IBEC Symposium will be on the theme of ‘Bioengineering for Future Medicine’
The 7th annual IBEC Symposium is fast approaching!
This year the theme will be ‘Bioengineering for Future Medicine’, which is one of the institute’s three main areas of application.
Scientists develop first light-operated drug for most common target proteins
Researchers in IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group and their collaborators have announced the development of the first ever light-controlled therapeutic agent whose effects focus specifically on the largest, most important class of drug target proteins – G protein-coupled receptors.
In the journal Nature Chemical Biology this week, the scientists reveal Alloswitch-1, the latest advance in their research into photoswitchable (or light-operated) drugs. Controlling drug activity with light means that the therapeutic effects can be accurately delivered locally, thus reducing their effect on other areas and the resultant side effects, and helps reduce the dosage required.
In-house equipment
To make in-house reservations, either for the BioSpace lab or for the other equipment, click here: BioSpace Lab The BioSpace Lab is a shared communal space located in the basement … Read more
Alumni
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Research management staff
DirectorJosep Samitier Managing Director Sergi Camacho Assistant to the DirectorEster Sánchez People Management We welcome you to the People Management Unit of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). We … Read more
Researchers measure a property of DNA for the first time
The electric polarizability of DNA is a fundamental property that directly influences its biological functions. Despite the importance of this property, however, its measurement has remained elusive so far.
In a study published in PNAS today, researchers at Barcelona’s Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) led by Laura Fumagalli, senior researcher at IBEC and lecturer at the University of Barcelona, and their collaborators at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and at Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB-CSIC) and IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid, describe how they have found a way to directly measure DNA electric polarizability – represented by its dielectric constant, which indicates how a material reacts to an applied electric field – for the first time ever.
Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies
The Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group is a senior group. Infectious diseases constitute a tenacious and major public health problem all over the world. The emergence and increasing prevalence of … Read more
Research groups
Units Severo Ochoa Distinguished Professor Associated Researchers Associated researchers are university professors seconded to IBEC who are working on topics that are of interest or complementary to our research areas.