“1000 Researchers. Five continents. One Day”
Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya has been invited to take part in a virtual stem cell meeting today, alongside other experts from all over the world.
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Marató money for IBEC project
Junior group leader Pere Roca-Cusachs has received funding from 2012’s La Marató de TV3 for his project “Stromal stiffness in Tumor Progression”.
Forging relations: Josep Samitier accompanies president of Catalonia on Israel mission
IBEC director Josep Samitier is one of 20 scientists who have accompanied President Artur Mas on his official visit to Israel.
Pfizer award for IBEC/Vall d’Hebron collaboration on hemophilia
A Spanish collaboration, including researchers from IBEC, has been awarded the prestigious ASPIRE Europe 2013 Hemophilia Research Award from Pfizer, the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company.
“Més de 450 nens de tot Catalunya faran recerca amb el suport d’investigadors del programa RecerCaixa” (Eng)
Emili Boronat from IBEC’s Robotics group appeared on TV3’s Info K programme yesterday after taking part in the presentation of the initiative ‘Investiga amb RecerCaixa!’ at Cosmocaixa in Barcelona alongside 9 other researchers from other institutions.
IBEC and IrsiCaixa collaborate in EU project to bring nanotechnology to the classroom
On 7th-9th November IrsiCaixa’s Unit of Public Engagement on Health Research, in a collaboration with IBEC, will host two workshops to help teachers who want to introduce the concept of nanotechnology to their pupils. The initiative is part of the European project “NanOpinion”, which aims to monitor public opinion on nanotechnology, paying special attention to public education.
A helping hand for budding surgeons
A prototype developed by IBEC’s Robotics group and their collaborators was presented at the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy’s 22nd Annual Congress in Berlin last month.
TV and radio interest in Dermoglass project
On Tuesday the head of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, Elisabeth Engel, was interviewed about their Dermoglass project for the Cadena SER radio programme La Ventana. Dermoglass is IBEC’s first venture into crowdfunding, and thanks to its 64 supporters so far it has already achieved 50% of its target.
IBEC organized the III Meeting of the Spanish Chapter ESB
Yesterday the III Spanish Chapter Meeting of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) was celebrated and organized by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). The event took place at the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) and hosted 60 people from research centres, hospitals and universities throughout Spain.
“Les instal·lacions de Pirelli acolliran una jornada de l’associació Tic3 del Bages” (Eng)
IBEC’s Robotics group leader Alicia Casals features in an article in Regió 7 (“El diari de la Catalunya central”) and other sites about next week’s (re)Make conference on information and communication technologies.