Application Deadline: 15/08/2016
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The Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Predoctoral candidate to participate in the in the photo physical characterization of photoisomerizable muscarinic ligands to control slow wave activity with light.
Application Deadline: 15/08/2016
Ref: PD-ET
The Bacterial Infections: antimicrobial therapies group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for Predoctoral candidate to participate in the research in infectious diseases, understand the bacterial virulence and identification of new strategies to treat bacterial infections.
There’s been lots of press coverage of Pau Gorostiza’s group’s recent Nature Communications paper describing their development of molecules that can be applied as light-regulated molecular prostheses to help restore vision in cases of retinal degeneration.
IBEC is a member of one of five ‘communities’ that will receive funding as part of the RIS3CAT intiative, which aims to enable and promote large projects in Catalonia that combine industry and research.In the launch meeting at the headquarters of RIS3CAT coordinator ACCIO – the government’s agency for competitivity in business – on Monday, Minister for Business and Enterprise Jordi Baiget, who chaired the event alongside Director General of Industry Nuria Betriu, declared RIS3CAT “the greatest ever effort for innovation in Catalonia”.
IBEC is a member of NEXTHEALTH, one of two health-related RIS3CAT communities among the five, all of which bring together businesses, research organizations, hospitals, and other major players to form a critical mass to work in collaboration on large-scale projects to boost innovation.
This summer’s Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC 2016), a new initiative that aims to stimulate scientific talent among young people, was covered in La Vanguardia today, with the photo accompanying the article taken at IBEC.
The groups of Pau Gorostiza, ICREA Research Professor at IBEC, and Amadeu Llebaria of IQAC-CSIC have developed molecules that can be applied as light-regulated molecular prostheses to help restore vision in cases of retinal degeneration.
Together with their collaborators at ICIQ, INA, IRB Barcelona, CIBER-BBN and the Miguel Hernández and Alcalá de Henares universities, the researchers reveal in Nature Communications today their development of a new class of light-regulated drug, targeted covalent photoswitches (TCPs), that act as prosthetic molecules that can restore photoresponses in degenerated retinas.
A round table discussion involving Samuel Sánchez, last year’s winner of the Princess of Girona Foundation (FPdGi) Award for Scientific Research, and other former winners was filmed at the recent FPdGi 2016 awards ceremony in Girona.Joint Meeting of the Spanish Network of Excellence in Mechanobiology and the European Innovative Training Network BIOPO
Joint Meeting of the Spanish Network of Excellence in Mechanobiology and the European Innovative Training Network BIOPO
This month IBEC is taking part in the Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC 2016), a new initiative that aims to stimulate scientific talent among young people from all over the world.IBEC’s researchers are contributing via the institute’s BIYSC project, “Instructive Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine”, coordinated by Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group senior researcher Soledad Pérez. The project aims to help the students understand the basis of regenerative medicine and to find out about developing of target-specific biomaterial scaffolding systems. IBEC’s project is one of ten being offered by research centres in the area within the framework of BIYSC, including IRB, CRG, ICFO, the UB, and ICIQ, and one of four that was fully subscribed.