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Institutional |
10 Sep 2026

The CSIC inaugurates Spain's most advanced facility for fabricating quantum chips and devices in Barcelona

The new Quantum Nanofabrication Area in the IMB-CNM Clean Room, funded with more than 6 million euros from the PERTE Chip program and the Complementary Plan for Quantum Communications, will strengthen Spanish and European capacity to develop advanced semiconductors. CSIC President Eloísa del Pino visited the facilities today alongside the Catalan Government’s Minister of Research, Núria Montserrat, and the MICIU’s Secretary General for Research, Eva Ortega

Papers |
22 Jul 2026

A heart-on-a-chip to better understand the human heart's response to drugs

Researchers at IDIBELL and IMB-CNM have developed a new vascularized cardiac model—a chip integrated with living cardiac tissue generated from human stem cells—that could advance our understanding of cardiotoxicity, one of the main barriers currently facing drug development. The new model is emerging as an alternative to reduce the use of animal models and prevent the discarding of promising drugs due to an overestimation of their cardiac toxicity