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Generalitat’s education event held at IBEC
IBEC welcomed members of the Generalitat’s Department of Education and about 150 teachers through its doors yesterday evening, when the Department held its event ‘Presentació del Programa de Competències Científiques’ in a research institute for the first time.
Faster and more accurate testing for causes of lower respiratory tract infections
Research and industry collaboration develops miniature diagnostic platform for respiratory infections such as pneumonia and infectious bronchitis
Featured on the cover of the latest issue of Lab on a Chip
IBEC to take part in excellence programme for teacher training
IBEC is one of the 13 research centres to be chosen to take part in Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera’s 2014 edition of Professors i Ciència, an excellence programme for the specialized training for secondary school science teachers.
IBEC winner to give address at RecerCaixa ceremony
At Friday 28th March’s official ceremony for the 2013 round of RecerCaixa funding, IBEC junior group leader Elisabeth Engel will represent all the winners and centres as the investigator chosen to speak at the event.
“Hello, robot”
IBEC group leaders Alícia Casals and Santiago Marco feature in a Sunday supplement about robots in La Vanguardia this week.
Helping the brain rebuild itself
A new strategy in regenerative medicine could promote recovery from damage
Tissue regeneration researchers at IBEC, UB and the UPC have developed an implant that could aid the regeneration of brain tissue, particularly in cases of pre- and postnatal injury.
ERC promoters honoured with first ACER Award
On Friday the ceremony took place of the first ever Asociación Catalana de Entidades de Investigación (ACER) Award, which was given to three of the key people who made possible the existence of the European Research Council (ERC). IBEC’s own ERC-supported scientists attended the ceremony, as did IBEC director Josep Samitier, who is on the Board of Directors of ACER.
“Spanish scientists develop the first functioning human splenon-on-a-chip”
The recent press release about the design of the first-ever functional 3D splenon capable of reproducing the function of the spleen, which is to filter red blood cells, by researchers from IBEC and CRESIB received lots of media coverage. Below are just a few examples.