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Birth of Europe's largest network of nanoscience infrastructures
The NFFA-Europe project brings together 20 research centres, laboratories and universities that pioneer research in this field, among them those that make up the Barcelona Nanocluster Bellaterra BNC-b: UAB, PRUAB, IMB-CNM, ICMAB and ICN2
Second prize at the VHIR Health Innovation Contest
The project "Liver on a chip", participated by the Biomedical Applications Group of the IMB-CNM (CSIC) won the second prize of the second Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Health Innovation Contest in the Biomedical Research Innovation category.
US patent on electrically-cooled power modules
A US Patent (No. US 8.995.134 B2) entitled “Electrically-cooled Power Module” was assigned to Lear Corporation (Southfield, MI, USA) on March 31, 2015. This patent was developed by IMB-CNM researchers in collaboration with engineers from Lear Corporation (Valls, Spain) and Leitat (Terrassa, Spain) in the framework of the CENIT-VERDE project.
Organ on a chip for biomedical experimentation
Scientists at the CSIC and at CIBER have developed a device which combines microelectronics and microfluidics to reproduce cell barrier conditions and to monitor them. It has applications on medical essays, to test drugs designed to penetrate cell barriers, such as antitumoral drugs for brain tumors or treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.