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.
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.
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.
IBEC appears in an article about bionics and rebuilding the human body published in Argentine daily newspaper El Tribuno (Salta), when Josep Samitier is quoted as an expert opinion on the subject.
IBEC’s very first venture into crowdfunding, which has come about as an initiative of the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group, goes live today on the crowdfunding website www.goteo.org.
The B·Debate event ‘Nanotechnologies in Health: Current Challenges and Future Prospects’, organised by ICN and IBB in collaboration with IBEC, UABCEI and Nanonica, is taking place at CosmoCaixa this week.
Today, experts in nanomedicine from all over the world convened to discuss the state-of-the-art of the field at the 2nd UAB Campus d’Excel·lència Internacional (CEI) Workshop on Nanomedicine.
Founding director of IBEC Josep A. Planell appears in La Vanguardia‘s Tendencias section yesterday in an interview by journalist Maite Gutiérrez.
Residents of Barcelona’s Sant Antoni district learnt all about robotics yesterday evening at ‘Ens envaeixen els robots!’, a talk given by the Robotic’s group’s Xavier Giralt at the Biblioteca Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver.
The October cover of Current Opinion in Cell Biology (the reference opinion journal in cell biology, with impact factor 12) features research by IBEC’s Pere Roca and Xavier Trepat, who together with Raimon Sunyer from the UB have published a review paper in the issue, “Mechanical guidance of cell migration: lessons from chemotaxis”.