Awards Archives - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

April 8, 2025

IBEC researcher Irene Marco-Rius receives Anatole Abragam Prize for her contributions to the field of magnetic resonance

Dr Irene Marco-Rius, principal investigator at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), has been awarded the 2025 Anatole Abragam Prize for her pioneering work on the use of magnetic resonance to study cells grown on chips, allowing ex vivo metabolic assessment of disease mechanisms and therapy responses in controlled microenvironments. The award was presented at the Joint ENC-ISMAR Conference in California.

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025

IBEC researcher Santiago Marco named IEEE Fellow

IBEC principal investigator Santiago Marco has been named IEEE Fellow, the highest honour awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award highlights Marco’s contributions to signal processing and machine learning in chemical sensors.

March 6, 2025February 24, 2025

IBEC spin-off Nanobots Therapeutics receives IMPACTO grant from the Spanish Association Against Cancer

IBEC spin-off Nanobots Therapeutics has been selected in the AECC’s 2024 call for IMPACTO grants. This is an initiative of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) aimed at technology-based micro-enterprises and SMEs to accelerate the arrival of new treatments in the clinic. The grants were awarded in Barcelona today.

January 23, 2025

INTROPY: A new approach to cancer therapy by inhibiting mechanotransduction

IBEC senior researcher Pere Roca-Cusachs has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. This is a prestigious grant awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and societal potential of research projects carried out at European institutions. Roca-Cusachs’ project, INTROPY, focuses on the inhibition of mechanotransduction as a potential therapy against cancer or fibrosis.

January 15, 2025

Eduard Torrents receives the ICREA Academia programme distinction

IBEC researcher Eduard Torrents has been awarded the ICREA Academia distinction by the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). The head of IBEC’s Bacterial Infections: Antimicrobial Therapies group received the award in the Life and Health Sciences category.

December 4, 2024December 3, 2024

IBEC scientist César Rodriguez-Emmenegger awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

IBEC’s Principal Investigator César Rodriguez-Emmenegger has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant. This prestigious European funding supports scientists in the consolidation phase of their research teams, allowing them to pursue innovative scientific ideas. The €2 million over five years will allow Rodriguez-Emmenegger and his team to develop Phagocytic Synthetic Cells (PSCs) to fight antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

November 13, 2024

Three IBEC researchers selected in the CaixaResearch 2024 call to lead health research projects

IBEC researchers Benedetta Bolognesi, Xavier Fernàndez Busquets and Xavier Trepat have been selected in the CaixaResearch 2024 call to lead their own research projects. The grants will provide financial support for the scientists to carry out their research in key areas such as cancer, malaria and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

September 19, 2024

Researcher Samuel Sánchez awarded a Leonardo Grant

IBEC researcher Samuel Sánchez has received a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation. The funding will help him take his research a step further and use organic and biocompatible materials to develop his nanorobots, which will be used as drug carriers to treat bladder cancer.

June 5, 2024

Xavier Trepat receives the Rei Jaume I Award in the Biomedical Research category

The prize recognises the research work of Trepat, ICREA Research Professor at IBEC. These awards, presented by the Valencian Foundation Rei Jaume I Awards, aim to bring science and business closer together in order to promote research, scientific development and entrepreneurship in Spain.

May 22, 2024

Marina Giannotti and Nina Kostina receive the BIST Mothers of Science Grant

The IBEC senior researchers were two of the winners of the fourth edition of the call for applications. Through this initiative, BIST recognises and supports scientist mothers working to reach a leading position and advance the research in their fields.