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IBEC/UPC spin-off for surgical robotics

A new spin-off company created by IBEC and the UPC will focus on the manufacture and marketing of surgical systems.

Rob Surgical Systems Inc., a technology company driven by IBEC group leader Alicia Casals and senior researcher Manuel Frigola, as well as Josep Amat of the Automatic Control and Computer Engineering Department of the UPC, was approved by the university’s governing council on Friday.

Sniffing out terrorists

The Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet programme on 28 November featured a report about the LOTUS project, of which IBEC group leader Santiago Marco is a partner.

Prize for arts and science project

An arts and science initiative involving IBEC and Barcelona’s Arts Santa Mònica centre, which took place earlier this year, has been awarded the Antoni Caparros Prize for Best Knowledge Transfer from the University of Barcelona.

La Marató de TV3 2010 funds awarded

maratologoThe 55 researchers who received funding from fundraising programme La Marató de TV3 2010, including IBEC’s Pau Gorostiza, attended a ceremony at the UAB last Wednesday where the grants were awarded in the presence of Minister of Health Boi Ruiz, Rector of the UAB Ana Ripoll, and La Marató de TV3 founder Enrique Marin.

Robotics on the TV

On 23 October, IBEC’s Robotics lab was featured in an episode of ‘Emprendedores e innovadores’ on TVE2, when visiting masters student Paloma Fuentes gave viewers a tour of the robot kitchen with the help of IBEC PhD student Manuel Vinagre (pictured).

IBEC Picture Release: “The dance of the cells: a minuet or a mosh?”

This image, which features on the November cover of the high-impact journal Trends in Cell Biology, illustrates work by researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), who collaborated with Harvard investigators earlier this year to come up with a brand new concept in biology, plithotaxis.

IBEC students’ PhD programmes get top billing

The Spanish Ministry of Education has published the list of doctoral programmes that have received the accreditation of “Mention of Excellence”. Among them were all the main doctoral programmes open to IBEC PhD students from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC).