The Biodeposition and Biodetection Unit – U4 NANBIOSIS has been updated with new equipment and components with ERDF funds
The Unit of Biodetection belonging to the U4- NANBIOSIS has been recently upgraded with new optics and microfluidic components to improve its performance and increase its competitiveness with other similar equipment in the market. The Unit of Biodetection, a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) biosensor, available at the Unit is a highly sensitive device that allows the monitoring [...]
Biosensors for Pandemics – Online Conference on May 6th
At the ICN2, together with Phantoms Foundation, we are organizing the first online conference about COVID19 pandemics. The Biosensors for Pandemics Conference will be streamed worldwide on May 6th, joining top international researchers to discuss how new nanotech diagnostic systems can help in health emergency situations. Prof. Laura M. Lechuga will give a Keynote presentation about the [...]
Featured article in OPN – OSA magazine
The current issue of Optics & Photonics News, the prestigious outreach journal of The Optical Society (OSA), highlights in the cover our recent publication Nanophotonic Biosensors: Driving Personalized Medicine. In this feature, we provide a clear and understandable overview of the latest advances in optical biosensing platforms and their applications in healthcare. Photonic biosensors are a unique [...]
Dr. Leyre Gómez will lead a new BIST IGNITE project
SensMOF is the new BIST IGNITE project that will be led by Dr. Leyre Gómez, postdoc in NanoB2A and NanoUP (Prof. Maspoch) groups at ICN2, together with ICREA Professor José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, from ICIQ. The SensMOF project aims to develop new nanophotonic sensors for quantitative analysis of bioactive enantiomeric molecules, a current and major challenge for [...]
Let’s start the CoNVat against coronavirus!
Our CoNVat project for new coronavirus diagnostics has been granted! The NanoB2A group will lead and coordinate a European research project to provide a point-of-care biosensor for the rapid detection of coronavirus. CoNVat is one of the 17 projects selected by the European Commission to be funded as urgent response to control and manage the [...]