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“El cerebro que vuelve”

sanchez_lavan_jun15An article about new IBEC group leader Samuel Sanchez by Josep Corbella in La Vanguardia yesterday talks about the ‘brain gain’ of having the nanotechnologist return to Catalonia after several years in Japan, the USA and Germany.

How cells cope with stress and strain

opcio 13_webA study by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) reveals how cells withstand breakage during the constant changes in shape and volume experienced in most biological processes

During critical biological processes such as embryonic development, breathing, the pumping of the heart, wound healing and tumor growth, the body’s cells are stretched and distorted to adapt to their environment. The cell’s membrane, though, is rigid and inflexible. So how does it withstand all these constant deformations, so that it doesn’t break?

New malaria strategy proposes using unaffected red blood cells as drug carriers

IBEC and ISGlobal’s joint unit, Nanomalaria, has published a new therapeutic strategy against malaria.

The study, which appeared in the current edition of the Journal of Controlled Release, tackles a major hurdle in malaria treatments, which is that most antimalarial drugs start working on the infected cell quite late in Plasmodium’s life cycle, when their effect is often too short to be lethal to the parasite. The work has been done in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline, as one of the few cases of partnerships involving industry in the research and development of innovative antimalarial nanomedicines.

IBEC group leader in new CIBER-BBN steering committee

Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group leader and UPC professor Raimon Jané has been appointed as a member of the new CIBER-BBN Steering Committee.

CIBER-BBN’s Permanent Commission announced the names of the 10-strong committee, which will stand for the next four years, on Wednesday.

Raimon, who will take part in the committee as Training Coordinator, will carry out his duties alongside other researchers including Ramón Martínez-Máñez (Universitat Politècnica de València) as director and José Becerra (Universidad de Málaga) as subdirector.

“La investigación tiene futuro”

2015 06 08 IBEC ElPeriodicoIn El Periodico today, there’s a four-page article about Catalonia’s ‘champion scientists’.

IBEC is the only institute with not one but two investigators presented, Xavier Trepat and Nuria Montserrat. They’re described as some of the handful of talent under 40 working to improve the health and welfare of society.

Kids’ Day

An opportunity for IBEC members to show their children their workplace, and gives them the chance to be a ‘little scientist’ for a day.