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IBEC receives ‘HR Excellence in Research’ award from the European Commission
IBEC has been awarded the ‘Human Resources Excellence in Research’ from the European Commission, in recognition of its commitment to continuously improving its HR policies in line with The European Charter of Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (Charter and Code).
IBEC can now use the official HR Excellence in Research logo to help promote itself as a provider of a stimulating and favourable work environment according to the Charter and Code, which describe the rights and responsibilities of researchers and their employers and contribute to the creation of a labour market that is transparent, attractive and open at an international level.
IBEC group leader a fem.talent award winner
IBEC group leader Alicia Casals received a 2015 fem.talent Award at the fem.talent Fòrum in Barcelona on Friday.
Alicia (third from right) won the prize for “Career trajectory”, recognising such milestones as the creation in 2011 of IBEC/UPC spin-off Rob Surgical Systems. Other award categories were “Emerging Talent”, “Innovation” and “Communication”.
The forum is a yearly conference of fem.talent, an initiative of the Network of Science and Technology Parks of Catalonia (XPCAT) that aims to promote equality of opportunity between men and women. This year the theme was “Smart Time: intelligent management of time,” with the objective of discussing innovative ideas and different practices in the field of time management.
Convergència representatives visit IBEC
On Friday morning representatives of Catalan political party Convergència i Unió (CIU) visited IBEC as part of a tour of the PCB.
Congresswoman Imma Riera and organizational secretary Josep Rull met IBEC Director Josep Samitier, who gave them an overview of IBEC, before visiting the Nanotechnology Platform, guided by coordinator Mateu Pla.
“Biomimética: Naturaleza replicada”
A two-page article in La Vanguardia today talks about biomimetics and how scientists are replicating processes from nature in fields such as nanotechnology, engineering, robotics, chemistry and materials science.
“Robots del tamaño de virus”
El Periódico features an interview with Samuel Sànchez following the announcement last week that he has been awarded the Premio Fundación Princesa de Girona Investigación Científica 2015.
“Estudiamos las infecciones en el intestino de la bacteria E.coli”
Eduard Torrents, who heads IBEC’s Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group, is the subject of an article in the Diari de Terrassa this week about his work earlier this year which identified a important factor in E. coli infection, opening the way to developing targeted drugs against the potentially deadly condition.
Samuel Sánchez wins FPdGi award for scientific research
IBEC group leader Samuel Sánchez is this year’s winner of the Premio Fundación Princesa de Girona Investigación Científica for his advances in in the field of nanotechnology.
Samuel’s work was recognised in particular for his pioneering design of self-propelled nanorobots that could improve the accuracy of drug delivery, as well as having potential environmental applications.
This year is the sixth edition of the national FPdGi Awards, which are given by the Fundación Princesa de Girona and which recognise the innovative and exemplary careers of young people between the ages of 16 and 35.
IBEC’s Annual Report 2014 now available
The English version of the Annual Report 2014 is now available to view online or download as a PDF.
In 2014, IBEC achieved, among other things:
– six Nature group papers, including a Nature Materials cover;
– 98 indexed journal papers in total, 77% of them in the first quartile;
– 12 PhD theses defended;
– two more ERC grants.
You can find all this and more in the Annual Report, which details the basic and translational research activities pursued by the institute in 2014, as well as the year’s news and scientific highlights, institutional alliances, tech transfer and clinical translation, and communications activities. A brand new section in this year’s edition covers IBEC’s Strategic Plan for the period 2014-2017 and the three areas of application in bioengineering.
A new mechanism in cell communication that promotes cancer metastasis
Pioneering 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.