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Scientific Programmes
Bioengineering and Medical Imaging
Coordinator: Jordi Aguiló Llobet
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long collaborative projects with other CIBER contracted staff. The Projects approved and their coordinators are:
• CARDIOGRAFET II: Disposable sensing platform based on graphene-SGFET to monitor biomarkers for cardiac diseases II, Elisabet Prats.
The Bioengineering programme was extremely active in 2018, with the presentation of 28 intramural cooperation proposals with a 4-year horizon. 18 of these proposals were submitted with groups from other thematic areas of the CIBER, mainly CIBERES, CIBERSAM, CIBERCV and CIBERNED, and 9 with external groups.
The most frequently tackled pathologies were cardiovascular diseases (7 proposals) and neurological and mental ones (6 proposals), followed by respiratory diseases (5 proposals).
As for joint activities with groups from other thematic areas, we should stress the following projects:
• Nano-MEA: Nanoparticle drug delivery systems for the improvement of the chronically implanted microlectrode-array viability, Cristina Soto.
• NANORASI: Optogenetic approach to visual rehabilitation using nanoparticle vectors, Lawrence Humphreys.
• Lyfe4AD: Comprehensive approach of non-adherent patients through an mHealth environment in people with endocrine diseases, Carmen Pérez Gandía.
On 8 May 2018 the I CIBER Forum on
Emerging Technologies was held, at which the Bioengineering Programme was represented
by Rosa Villa and Pablo Laguna, who took part in the sessions on Nanotechnologies and on Omic Technologies and Big Data, respectively.
At the session for young researchers during
the Annual Symposia of CIBER-BBN, researcher Carolina Migliorelli from Raimon Jané’s group was given the prize for the best article in the field of Bioengineering for her work entitled Automated detection of epileptic ripples in MEG using beamformer-based virtual sensors.
The Programme’s activity in European initiatives was marked by the work done
by Rosa Villa’s team, a researcher in Jordi Aguiló’s group, in the CORE 2 sub-project of the Graphene Flagship. One result of this work was the development of a graphene implant which overcomes the technical barriers for detecting cerebral activity at extremely low frequencies. The same group is also taking part along with Raquel Bailón’s team from Pablo Laguna’s group
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ANS-RESP-WEANING: Autonomic nervous system surrogates, cardiopulmonary coupling and respiratory parameters as predictors
of successful weaning in mechanically ventilated patients, a collaborative project
by the groups led by Pablo Laguna and Lluis Blanch (CIBERES) which continued to be developed in 2018.
NaTBiL: PDT based on nanoconjugates triggered by biolight, presented by María
de la Fuente Freire from the ONCOMET- CIBERONC group and José Miguel López Higuera at the 2018 call for CIBERONC-BBN projects. The project was the third most voted in the participative evaluation during the forum held and has already started to be implemented, going on until October 2019.
Apart from this 4 CIBER contracted staff members in groups of the Bioengineering, the call for Early Stage projects, presenting 2-year
CIBER-BBN | ANNUAL REPORT 2018