Mechanical control of biological function
On Friday last week MECHANO-CONTROL, the largest European project ever coordinated at IBEC, held its kick-off meeting at the institute.
Pere Roca-Cusachs’ project, which is funded by H2020’s FET Proactive programme, will focus on understanding and controlling how cells transmit and detect mechanical forces, with the aim of coming up with new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for cancer and other diseases.
Read more on the IBEC website
Mind the Byte is one of the partners in the Mechano-Control research project slated to receive €7 million in funding over the next five years to develop therapies for cancer, fibrosis and other diseases. Coordinated by Dr Pere Roca-Cusachs, head researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and adjunct professor at the University of Barcelona, Mechano-Control is one of 12 projects that have been selected from the 210 applications submitted from around Europe in the latest call launched by the Horizon 2020 FET Proactive programme.
Read more on the Mind the Byte website
January 2017 sees the start of the largest European project ever coordinated at IBEC, Pere Roca-Cusachs’ MECHANOCONTROL, which aims to come up with new therapeutic or diagnostic approaches for cancer and other diseases.
Funded under Horizon 2020’s FET Proactive programme, which helps new research communities to be developed by encouraging researchers from different disciplines to work together, MECHANOCONTROL will focus on understanding and controlling how cells transmit and detect mechanical forces.
Read more on the IBEC website
