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We shape the present and future of #medicine with #Bioengineering. A unique @cerca.cat research center. Member of @bist.eu.
Still planning to submit to #OPTOGEN2026? There's time! 📅 Abstract submission deadline: September 10 Join us in Barcelona to discover the latest advances in optogenetics and optical neural interfaces. Submit your abstract 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/lgrfqloihl
🔴 LAST DAYS TO APPLY for Early-Bird registration at #OPTOGEN2026! The deadline is extended until July 31, aligned with abstract submission. Submit your work and register at a reduced rate!! 🗓 Oct 12–14, 2026 | 📍 Barcelona (PRBB) 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/lgrfqloihl
How do tissues adapt to prolonged stretching? #IBEC led study reveals that epithelial cells reorganise their keratin into supracellular networks, triggering "nuclear uncaging", a newly identified mechanism for adapting to mechanical stress. Read more 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/xoeavxwlcr
📢 L'#IBEC acollirà Andrea Obaid Carrión com a membre de la quarta i última promoció del #FRONTIERS Science Journalism in Residency Programme. Seleccionada entre només 10 periodistes científiques, desenvoluparà un projecte de periodisme sobre ciència de frontera 👏
We’re #HIRING: 2 Junior Group Leader Positions at #IBEC → Junior Group Leader in AI & Data Science for Bioengineering → Junior Group Leader in Translational Pediatric Bioengineering 📩 Apply here: https://f.mtr.cool/gwfelnpkha
🔴 Last days to apply for the #IBEC Director call IBEC is launching the selection process for its new Director, a unique opportunity to lead an international centre of excellence in bioengineering based in Barcelona. 📅 Deadline: 20 July 🔗 More info: https://f.mtr.cool/dcrnfudzaf
🧵1/ A major breakthrough in vision restoration. A consortium led by #IBEC has developed light-activated drugs that restored key visual functions in blind mice and zebrafish, opening a promising new avenue for treating retinal degenerative diseases. 👁️✨
Great news! 🎉 #IBEC researchers Samuel Sánchez, Giuseppe Battaglia, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Jordi Duran together with Jose Antonio del Rio, will participate in three projects selected in the #CaixaResearch Health 2026 call by Fundación "la Caixa"
Proud that #IBEC is part of ALIVE, a pioneering European research programme funded through the Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Programme to uncover how information flows shape living tissues and drive regeneration, development and cancer 🔬 Read more 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/itnsslzqmw
La Vanguarda destaca el projecte del grup de Biomaterials for Neural Regeneration d l'#IBEC on expliquen com es poden estudiar les lesions medul·lars humanes sense experimentació animal 🧠 📰 https://f.mtr.cool/ztyremgzbp
🧵 New insights into the blood–brain barrier (BBB) 🧠🚧 A new study led by #IBEC, in collaboration with IRB Barcelona, offers a new way to understand how the blood–brain barrier works.
#IBEC at the UCL Hawkes Institute 🌍 Pilar Jiménez Sánchez and Ana González Núñez took part in a professional staff exchange, connecting with colleagues and sharing experiences. Great days of learning and collaboration, see you in Barcelona this autumn! 🙌
🔬 IBEC contributed to 3 projects funded by La Marató de 3Cat 2020 on COVID-19 From organoid-based models to respiratory monitoring and prognosis prediction, these projects advanced diagnosis, clinical follow-up, and understanding of SARS-CoV-2. 🤝 Science driven by solidarity.
🚨 Last chance for Early-Bird registration! The early-bird deadline has been extended until July 31, aligned with the abstract submission deadline, your last chance to submit and register at a reduced rate. 📍 PRBB (Barcelona) 📅 Oct 12–14, 2026 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/doaadafxld
🔬 Behind every scientific breakthrough there are bold choices, key opportunities, and trust in people. Read the feature by Fundación ”la Caixa” highlights Irene Marco-Rius, PI at IBEC, and the impact of early research funding. 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/vgekdaygxv
🚀 Reserva’t les dates! La BIST Career Week 2026 tindrà lloc del 6 al 10 de juliol 💻 Tallers i taules rodones en línia per impulsar la teva carrera científica (i més enllà). 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/fdhdfefaex
🔬🎉 Celebrating 20 years of IBEC! Last week, #IBEC brought together ~100 professionals at the “IBEC Alumni – 20 Years of Community” event, an inspiring afternoon to reconnect former and current members, share career paths, and highlight the talent grown over two decades. 💚
🔬 A l’#IBEC formem part de l’#AliançaMagnet, connectant centres educatius i recerca per enriquir l’aprenentatge científic. L’alumnat de l’Institut Lluís Vives visita les nostres instal·lacions per descobrir la biomedicina i la bioenginyeria des d’una mirada pràctica.
🎉 Carlos Moreno-Yruela ( @carlosmyruela.bsky.social ) has received an Accésit at the Premios Tercer Milenio 2026, recognizing excellence in science communication, research & innovation. Now launching his own lab at #IBEC with an ERC Starting Grant. 👏
📢 Abstract deadline: June 15th! Join the 3rd Barcelona Blood-Brain Barrier Conference (#B42026)—bringing together experts in neuroscience, vascular biology, bioengineering & nanomedicine. 📍 PRBB, Barcelona 📅 3–5 November 👉 More info & submission: https://f.mtr.cool/kuvxbatgju
🎉 LAST WEEK to register! IBEC celebrates 20 Years of Community with a gathering for Alumni and current members. 📅 June 18th | 5:30 pm 📍 Auditori Antoni Caparrós (PCB) Networking, celebration, and cocktail reception Registration 👉 https://events.ibecbarcelona.eu/alumniibec20anys/
🏆 Congratulations to Santiago Marco, Group Leader of IBEC’s Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems group, on his recognition by ISOCS for his longstanding contributions to olfaction and chemical sensing.
🔬🍻 Science with light at Pint of Science Luisa Camerin, researcher at #IBEC, will talk about photopharmaceutical. A promising technology for pain, epilepsy & vision disorders. 📍 Cafeteria Casal Sant Adrià | 🕖 7:00 PM 👉 Info & tickets: https://lnkd.in/eS3t-CSy
🎉 Rosalba Sortino, Researcher in the Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group, has received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award (2023–2024) from the Universitat de Barcelona for her thesis, “Development and applications of photoswitchable ligands for G protein-coupled receptors”.
🎤✨ Èxit rotund de Science on Stage: la recerca puja a l’escenari! El 8 de maig, el MAU MAU Underground de BCN es va omplir de ciència, llengua i talent. Enhorabona a David Bartolomé (IBEC) pel millor monòleg de monologuista catalanoparlant! 🔬🎭 Ciència i català, de la mà 💛
📢 ABSTRACT DEADLINE COMING SOON FOR #ESSB2026 The European Society for Spatial Biology has its 3rd Annual Conference: “Painting a New Biology” 📍 Sitges (Barcelona) 📅 Sept 28 – Oct 1, 2026 Four days of science, discussion & collaboration. 🔗 https://essb2026.org/
SOMMa Connect 2026 | September 22–23, Barcelona Excellence in science, business, investment, and innovation brought together in a single event, organized by #SOMM_alliance and @crg.eu 🎟 Free registration until May 31 👉 https://sommaconnect.es/registro/ #SOMMaConnect2026
Ja està disponible l’entrevista a Josep Samitier Martí, adjunt a la Direcció de l'#IBEC, al programa Diga-li Ciència, emès a Radio 4. 🎙️🌍 🎧 Pots escoltar el programa complet aquí: https://lnkd.in/gKvEyrBQ
Together with Duchenne patients, #IBEC is developing a heart-on-a-chip to tackle cardiac damage, the leading cause of death in Duchenne. 🔬 Promoted by Duchenne Parent Project Spain, the BEAT Project aims to speed up treatment discovery. 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dFDiQxWz