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The microscope artist

Seeing is believing. And what can be more exciting than working with different microscopes and being able to see what at a first glance, seems invisible? At IBEC we are … Read more

Bioengineering against COVID19

As a public research institute seeking health solutions, IBEC has adapted its priorities and facilities, to help respond to the coronavirus crisis: Taking measures that safeguard the security of all … Read more

Research Assistant at the Targeted Therapeutics & Nanodevices Research Group

Application Deadline: 02/12/2021
Ref: RA-SM

The Targeted Therapeutics and nanodevices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Research Assistant to collaborate in a research project focused on drug delivery systems capable of targeting and crossing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for treatment of neurological diseases involving lysosomal alterations and/or inflammation.

Synthetic nanofibers to repair spinal cord injuries

Researchers led by Professor Samuel Stupp, from Northwestern University (USA) and Distinguished Professor Severo Ochoa at IBEC, together with Zaida Álvarez from IBEC, appear in the media for the recent study that has allowed them to develop a new injectable therapy that uses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injury.

Unraveling the cell’s sweet spot from nature

In a recent Nature chemical biology paper, a team of researchers from ICMS/TUE and IBEC, together with researchers from Leiden University unravel the interactions of individual sugar molecules with cells using super-resolution microscopy. The paper appeared on the cover of the November issue of the journal.

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