IBEC’s former director Josep A. Planell is the first scientist from Spain to be awarded the prestigious George Winter prize of the European Society for Biomaterials.

Research done at IBEC that was published in the journal Cell. Mol. Life Sci. last week reveals a hopeful new lead in the quest to understand neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

  Wednesday’s IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine welcomed 230 participants, almost 40 of them coming from outside IBEC from places as far afield as Belgium and Colombia.

At yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Josep Samitier was appointed as the new Director of IBEC.

Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.

There’s just over a week to go until IBEC celebrates its sixth annual symposium in bioengineering and nanomedicine.

The picture shows masters student Alejandro Calvo and senior researcher Beatriz Giraldo at this week's "Recerca en directe" science fair in La Pedrera, where IBEC's Biomedical Signal Processing and Interpretation group are taking part with an activity that helps participants record and process their own biomedical signals.

Click on the image (left) to see PhD student Sergio Oller from the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems talking about the group’s research into the development of electronic noses based on the mammalian olfactory system.

In this week's Diario Medico Special on Diagnostic Therapies, IBEC acting director Josep Samitier's expert opinion is quoted in an article about lab-on-a-chip technologies.

On Friday 12th April IBEC participated in an event and press conference to present the first results of the projects promoted by the five research centres included in the Obra Social ”la Caixa”’s pilot scheme for funding research evaluation and technology transfer.