IBEC in the Media
“Working with robots on patient mobility”
IBEC is mentioned in the press today in relation to the HYPER project, of which the Robotics group is a partner. The story reveals the start of some pilot tests with real spine patients at the Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo with the robots being developed by the project, which aims to develop new treatments in neurorehabilitation and help with patients’ mobility.
“Càpsules de Ciència: Josep Samitier” (Eng)
IBEC Director Josep Samitier stars in one of the Associació per a la Divulgació de la Cultura Cientifica (ADICC)’s ‘Càpsules de Ciència’, a series of videos highlighting biomedical and biotechnology researchers in Catalonia. In the video, he explains nanobiotechnology with the submarine on Ronda de Dalt as a backdrop, which represents the way nanodevices can travel through our bodies much like tiny submarines on a rescue mission.
“Las células humanas construyen puentes colgantes para cicatrizar las heridas” (Eng)
This week’s press release about the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group’s work published in Nature Materials has appeared online in La Vanguardia, ABC and El Diario.
“Al laboratori al ‘Connexió’: Suma UPC, idees a la recerca de finançament” (Eng)
Last week BTV’s Connexió programme reported on three of the projects which are currently raising funds by crowdfunding under the UPC’s SUMA initiative. One is the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies … Read more
“Nanorobots de disseny per atacar la malària” (Eng)
IBEC Director and Head of Nanobioengineering, Josep Samitier, and the head of the joint IBEC/CRESIB unit on Nanomalaria, Xavier Fernández-Busquets, both featured in an article in the Catalan daily newspaper Ara this weekend.