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“El hombre que interroga a cada cáncer hasta saber cómo matarlo”

Joan Montero, a senior researcher in IBEC’s Nanobioengineering group, appeared yesterday in an interview published by the SINC Agency in which he talks about his laboratory test – which is already being used in some hospitals in the United States – which is capable of predicting, in just 24 hours, if a drug will be able to kill a tumor.

“Ja es comença a dir que no hi ha malaties, sinó malalts”

An interview with IBEC director Josep Samitier in his capacity as the president of ACER appeared in the ‘Dominical’ supplement of the Diari de Girona last week.

“La música de la ciencia”

In a La Vanguardia feature by Josep Corbella, IBEC’s Xavier Trepat is interviewed along with IRB’s Salvador Aznar-Benitah about the important role music plays in their lives, how it has affected their careers as researchers, and about the relation and similarities between musical and scientific creativity.

“Mecanobiología de los tejidos celulares’

An article by IBEC researchers Pilar Rodríguez, Xavier Trepat and Raimon Sunyer about the importance of physical forces in understanding biological function appears in the June edition of Investigación y Ciencia, the Spanish-language version of Scientific American magazine.

“Deuwatts: Enginyeria biomèdica”

Yesterday, in betevé’s “Deuwatts” programme devoted to biomedical engineering, they featured interviews with Elisabeth Engel and Sergi Rey.

“La bioenginyeria millorarà les nostres vides”

An article by IBEC director Josep Samitier explaining what bioengineering is and how it can advance health and quality of life appeared in La Vanguardia today.

“Bioengineering future kidney disease solutions”

May 9, 2018

Federico González Grassi, a senior researcher in the Pluripotency for organ regeneration group, recently gave an interview to Scitech Europa, a website that provides news and developments from the European science and technology community.

“Nga Tawa School teen from Marton New Zealand accepted for Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge”

IBEC appears today in the New Zealand Herald, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country.

“Tecnología, la fuente de la juventud eterna”

IBEC director Josep Samitier features in an article today in El Mundo.

“Les lleis de Newton prometen una nova revolució mèdica”

IBEC group leaders Pere Roca-Cusachs and Elena Martinez featured in an article in Ara magazine at the weekend that discussed how understanding mechanical forces and their effect on cellular processes can open new avenues in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.