ESB’s George Winter award for Josep A. Planell
IBEC’s former director Josep A. Planell is the first scientist from Spain to be awarded the prestigious George Winter prize of the European Society for Biomaterials.
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Shedding new light on myelination and potential therapies for MS
Research done at IBEC that was published in the journal Cell. Mol. Life Sci. last week reveals a hopeful new lead in the quest to understand neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
Sixth IBEC symposium a farewell to Josep
Wednesday’s IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine welcomed 230 participants, almost 40 of them coming from outside IBEC from places as far afield as Belgium and Colombia.
Josep Samitier named as new Director of IBEC
At yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Josep Samitier was appointed as the new Director of IBEC.
“9 Materials That Will Change the Future of Manufacturing”
Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.
Looking forward to IBEC’s sixth annual symposium
There’s just over a week to go until IBEC celebrates its sixth annual symposium in bioengineering and nanomedicine.
Measuring signals at the 11th “Recerca en directe” Science Fair
The picture shows masters student Alejandro Calvo and senior researcher Beatriz Giraldo at this week’s “Recerca en directe” science fair in La Pedrera, where IBEC’s Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group are taking part with an activity that helps participants record and process their own biomedical signals.
El laboratori al ‘Connexió’: “El nas electrònic del IBEC” (Eng)
Click on the image (left) to see PhD student Sergio Oller from the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems talking about the group’s research into the development of electronic noses based on the mammalian olfactory system.
“Herramientas para diseñar laboratorios que caben en un chip” (Eng)
In this week’s Diario Medico Special on Diagnostic Therapies, IBEC acting director Josep Samitier’s expert opinion is quoted in an article about lab-on-a-chip technologies.
IBEC a “benchmark in pioneering research projects with great economic potential”
On Friday 12th April IBEC participated in an event and press conference to present the first results of the projects promoted by the five research centres included in the Obra Social ”la Caixa”’s pilot scheme for funding research evaluation and technology transfer.