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On Sunday Elena Garreta, a senior researcher in Nuria Montserrat’s IBEC and TU/e plant the seed of a promising partnership
Eight IBECers were in the Netherlands on 13th and 14th September for the first ever IBEC-ICMS Symposium, ‘NanoSens&Med’.
Eight IBECers were in the Netherlands on 13th and 14th September for the first ever IBEC-ICMS Symposium, ‘NanoSens&Med’.The event aimed to identify synergies and potential for collaboration between IBEC groups and the researchers of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), a research institute of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
Two IBEC group leaders, Vito Conte and Lorenzo Albertazzi, already have dual appointments with ICMS. They opened the symposium by welcoming all participants from the two institutions and presented their research, as did Eduard Torrents, Elena Martinez, Silvia Muro, Nuria Montserrat, Samuel Sanchez and director Josep Samitier, who also introduced IBEC.
Nuria Montserrat features in a long article in Quo magazine.“Últimas noticias sobre Frankenstein”
In an article in El Periodico on Friday, five Barcelona-based scientists – including IBEC’s Josep Samitier, Nuria Montserrat and Paul Verschure – took stock of the possibilities of disciplines such as bioengineering and robotics to regenerate, recycle or even create life.
IBEC project wins funding from the AECC
An IBEC group’s project was granted funding from the Fundación Científica de la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer in their 2017 Ayudas LAB AECC call.
Nuria Montserrat’s group will work together with researchers from other Barcelona institutes and one of the city’s major hospitals on the project ‘Generation of Isogenic Models of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma using CRISPR-engineered Kidney Organoids, for the identification of diagnostic biomarkers’. They will receive support over a three-year period from the AECC Scientific Foundation, whose ‘Ayudas LAB’ funds emerging groups to carry out projects in cancer that have obvious translational possibilities.
The project will develop a human model to study clear cell renal cancer, the most common type of kidney cancer. At present, there are no human models for this cancer, nor for the identification of early biomarkers, which would shed light on the molecular mechanisms of how the cancer starts and allow doctors to diagnose it and start treatments earlier.
“Las bioimpresoras abren el camino a la creación de órganos en 3D”
Nuria Montserrat features in an article in El Periodico today which discusses the possibilities offered by 3D bioprinting to create replacement tissues or even whole organs.
Presenting IBEC’s 3D bioprinting capabilities at the second IN(3D)USTRY event
This week IBEC is attending the second edition of “IN(3D)USTRY: From Needs to Solutions”, the international meeting devoted to 3D printing.
The institute has a stand in the exhibition area, where Head of Technology Transfer Xavier Rubies, Technology Transfer manager Xavier Puñet and Nanotechnology Platform Coordinator Mateu Pla are welcoming visitors interested in finding out more about IBEC’s 3D bioprinting capabilities.
Yesterday lunchtime IBEC director Josep Samitier gave a talk about the challenges and possibilities of 3D bioprinting, where he outlined some of IBEC’s relevant projects including the cardiac regeneration research by Nuria Montserrat’s group and the bioreactors being developed by Elena Martinez.
“Más cerca de generar corazones bioartificiales”
An article about Nuria Montserrat appeared in El Mundo on Tuesday following her invovlement in a recent study in which the first human heart grafts from human pluripotent stem cells were generated.
“La revolución de los organoides”
Muy Interesante magazine this week features an article about organoids, three-dimensional cell/ tissue cultures which mimic organ structure and function, and quotes Nuria Montserrat as an expert opinion.
“La investigación tiene futuro”
In 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.