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February 9, 2015

”Los ensayos clínicos con iPS esperan el pistolazo de salida”

IBEC group leader and director of CMRB Ángel Raya is featured as one of four researchers making notable advances in regenerative medicine in a story in Diario Medico today

The article includes interviews with researchers from New York, Munich and Rome, who alongside Ángel attended a conference organised by the Areces Foundation and the Nature Group last week in Madrid.

July 8, 2015February 9, 2015

ICREA Academia Award for IBEC group leader

Gabriel Gomila, IBEC group leader and Associate Professor at the UB, has received an ICREA Academia Prize 2014 for excellence in research and capacity for leadership.

Bestowed annually by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) to encourage university professionals with an outstanding research career to stay in the Catalan university system, this year’s list of 30 winners is made up of 10 researchers from the UB, 8 from the UAB, 6 from the UPC, 3 from the UPF, 2 from Universitat de Girona and one from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

February 6, 2015

IBEC Seminar: Daniel Oliver

Crowdfunding for scientific and health projects

February 6, 2015

IBEC Seminar: Daniel Oliver

Crowdfunding for scientific and health projects

October 27, 2025February 5, 2015

Smart nano-bio-devices

We develop different Systems ranging from active nanoparticles (nanobots) to 3D Bioprinted Actuators. We are interested in fundamental studies of active matter, the use of nanobots for future nanomedicine and … Read more

February 9, 2025February 5, 2015

Pluripotency for organ regeneration

The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), especially the generation of patient-derived pluripotent stem cells suitable for disease modelling in vitro, opens the door for the potential translation of stem-cell … Read more

July 15, 2015February 4, 2015

Josep Samitier elected new president of ACER

Last week, IBEC Director Josep Samitier was named new president of the Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER).

Josep takes the reins from IFCO director Lluís Torner, who has held the position since 2009. The association’s first President was the Hon. Mr. Andreu Mas-Colell. The other members of the Director’s Board are ICAC’s Joan Gómez Pallarès (Secretary), Ramon Gomis (IDIBAPS), Jordi Galí (CREI) and Josep M. Monfort (IRTA) as members.

February 3, 2015

“Centros tecnológicos – IBEC” (Eng)

Today El Mundo features a short article about IBEC’s involvement in the European project Plantoid, which aims aims to design and develop robots inspired by plants.

September 6, 2023January 29, 2015

“Mini-kidney” scientist joins IBEC with ERC grant

A new group leader at IBEC brings one of the most prestigious funding awards, an ERC Starting Grant, to continue her research into kidney regeneration

Nuria Montserrat (Barcelona, 1978) is one of just eight young researchers in Catalonia to have received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant at the end of 2014.

January 28, 2015January 26, 2015

Wounds heal using a cellular ‘tug-of-war’

Researchers at IBEC reveal in a Nature Communications paper some surprising mechanics that drive epithelial gap closure in the absence of underlying layers

In a collaboration with their colleagues at the Mechanobiology Institute in Singapore, IBEC researchers have demonstrated that a kind of ‘tug-of-war’ takes place after our skin or other epithelial layer is damaged, particularly in cases where the tissue is chronicly or deeply injured.