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Samuel Sánchez wins National Research Award for Young Talent

IBEC group leader and ICREA researcher Samuel Sánchez has been announced as the winner of this year’s Premi Nacional de Recerca al Talent Jove (National Research Award for Young Talent) from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI).

The prestigious honour and cash prize of €10,000 is awarded annually to the most accomplished young researcher in Catalonia.

EUCYS 2016: Miquel Bosch

mboschvidA video of an interview of Miquel Bosch, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, talking about his research on drugs activated by light and demonstrating with a home-made cockroach armed with a light sensor.

Projects

All IBEC’s groups coordinate or are involved in competitively funded projects. Funding sources include the EU’s Framework Programmes, national or regional governmental grants, private foundations and industrial partnerships. Major, currently … Read more

IBEC researchers win EIT Health awards

IBEC group leaders Eduard Torrents and Elisabeth Engel both received awards at last week’s EIT Health Spain event at the PCB.

Eduard’s project, Novel Antimicrobial Therapy, won first prize in the ‘PoC +’ category of EIT health Spain’s Proof of Concept (PoC +) awards, and in the ‘PoC’ category, Elisabeth won a prize for Dermoglass, the smart dressing for the treatment of chronic wounds.

More IBEC success in CaixaImpulse

caixaimpulse16Two IBEC projects have been granted funding as part of the 2016 CaixaImpulse programme, which is organized by the ”la Caixa” Foundation and Caixa Capital Risc.

Cellular and molecular mechanobiology group leader Pere Roca-Cusachs’ project, “Solid tumor therapy”, and “ISCHEMSURG”, led by Monica Mir, senior researcher in Josep Samiiter’s Nanobioengineering group, will each receive up to €70,000 through this year’s programme, which aims to promote technology transfer in science.