The President of Catalonia visits IBEC
During the visit, the President of the Government of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès i Garcia, and the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells i Díaz, were able to learn first-hand about several … Read more
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Nuria Montserrat wins the “Constantes y Vitales” award for her pioneering research in the field of organoids
Núria Montserrat, ICREA professor and group leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), has been awarded with the “Constantes y Vitales” Young talent award in Biomedical research during … Read more
Organoids to create “mini-brains”
IBEC principal investigator Núria Montserrat, appears in the media for a new breakthrough with organoids by Sergiu Pașca of Stanford University in California and his team. This new method, published … Read more
Laboratory Techinician at the Pluripotency for organ regeneration group
Laboratory Technician/ Deadline: September 22th 2022
Laboratory technician at the Pluripotency for organ regeneration Research Group
Introduction to the vacant position: The Pluripotency for organ regeneration Group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) led by Prof. Nuria Montserrat is looking for a laboratory technician … Read more
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pluripotency for organ regeneration Research Group
Application Deadline: 23/09/2022
Ref: PD-NM
The Pluripotency for organ regeneration group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to develop his/her project on the fabrication of microfluidic devices for tissue engineered organ-on-a-chip cultures during health and upon SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The contract will be within the framework of “Modern approaches for developing antivirals against SARS-CoV 2” from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement no. 101005026 .
Alternatives to animal experimentation with Núria Montserrat
IBEC principal investigator and ICREA professor Núria Montserrat appears on the TV3 news program talking about alternatives to animal experimentation.
Mini-kidneys, diabetes and COVID-19 in the media
Núria Montserrat, ICREA Research Professor at IBEC, appears in the media for her breakthrough between diabetes and COVID-19 thanks to human mini-kidneys created in the lab.
Laboratory-generated mini-kidneys help understand the link between diabetes and COVID-19 disease
In an international collaboration, researchers led by Nuria Montserrat, ICREA Research Professor at IBEC, have generated human mini-kidneys that simulate the kidney of a person with diabetes in the early stages of the disease. These diabetic mini-kidneys open the door to studying, among others, the relationship between diabetes and COVID-19.
Núria Montserrat and science in the newspaper “El País”
