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Communications and Administrative Manager for Knowledge Innovation Community

supportApplication Deadline: 26/01/2016
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Communications and Administrative Manager to support the Spanish Health Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) for healthy lifestyle and active aging of EIT Health. The position is funded by the Acciones de dinamización “Redes de Excelencia” 2015 of the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) .

Shrinking technologies to dig deeper into the body’s secrets

Advanced materials_ AgusilA team of scientists including IBEC researchers have developed a brand new technique that miniaturizes the way we study biomolecular interactions, allowing multiple analyses inside living cells for the first time.

Published in Advanced Materials, the study describes a new technology, Suspended Planar-Array chips, whose extraordinary degree of miniaturization permits their use at the microscale. The new technique uses a single suspended chip to identify, quantify and determine of biochemical and physiological changes in small volumes, a reduction so dramatic that it even permits analysis inside living cells.

Project Manager – Strategic Initiatives

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20/01/2016
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The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Project Manager of Strategic Initiatives a new key unit to foster and coordinate institutional and strategic projects. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Strategic Initiatives.

Cells are liquids – but behave like solids

romaricPRL_webScientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have revealed that, counter to previous understanding, the living cells in our bodies behave like solids rather than the liquids they are made of.

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Xavier Trepat, who led the research, describes the discovery as ‘truly counter-intuitive’. “It means we need brand new laws of physics to understand what ingredients a fluid needs to behave as a solid,” he says.

Harnessing E. coli to power micromotors for drug delivery

Samuel Sanchez Adv Mat 2015An IBEC researcher and his collaborators have taken the next step in their quest to achieve safe micromotors for medical drug and cargo delivery by developing a version that is powered by bacteria.

Samuel Sánchez, who recently published some work about similar micro-sized drug carriers that are powered by enzymes that consume biological fuels, such as glucose, worked with the part of his group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems on this latest finding, highlighted on the inside cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces, which elaborates an even more promising ‘microswimmer’ that is powered by Escherichia coli.

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