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Daniel Cabrerizo, PhD student at BBT, will carry out a research stay at Prof. Julia Kzhyshkowska's laboratory at Heidelberg University thanks to the support of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

PhD students Yuliana Franco and Jordi Rodrigo traveled in late August to Conil de la Frontera (Spain) to attend the 18th Biometal Symposium on Biodegradable Metals, held in this Cadiz town from August 24 to 29th, 2026.

Eleven of the fifty researchers who are part of the BBT research group have participated in the 35th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, a landmark meeting coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the institution's founding.

Two BBT postdocs have successfully completed their respective academic stays between July 11th and the 25th, 2026, within the framework of a highly competitive joint program between Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and several higher education institutions in China.

The UPC Doctoral School has launched the first edition of the PhD Buddy Program, a pioneering initiative designed to accompany and support first-year doctoral candidates as they begin their research journey at our university. The program has the financial support of Banco Santander, through the call Becas Santander "Dones i Ciència" | PhD Buddy Program UPC 2026, which grants financial aid to doctoral candidates acting as mentors.

Raúl Agut-López et al. study, in this innovative publication, how to convert hydroxyapatite, a rigid, brittle material, into a flexible structure with tuneable mechanical properties and degradation kinetics.

Dr. Tània Vilella, a PhD student at BBT and CIEFMA, presented her doctoral thesis on "Biocompatible Superelastic TiNb-based alloys produced by additive manufacturing," co-directed by Dr. Daniel Rodríguez-Rius and Dr. Gemma Fargas.

BBT PhD students Raúl Agut and Daniel Cabrerizo are currently undertaking two research stays in València (Spain) and Mannheim (Germany), respectively.

Dr. David Naranjo, who held a doctoral grant from the Multiscale Science and Engineering Research Center of Barcelona and subsequently an FI SDUR - AGAUR Grant, defended his doctoral thesis last Friday, October 16th, at the EEBE.

Several members of the Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Research Group (BBT) have actively participated in four prominent scientific gatherings this autumn: IMAP 2026, the 38th European Peptide Symposium, Bioceramics 36, and AM Ceramics 2026. Through a series of invited talks, oral communications and poster presentations, the team has presented our latest work in peptide design, bio-functionalized ceramics and additive manufacturing for regenerative medicine.

A new study, published by Ángel Viteri, Maria-Pau Ginebra, and José García-Torres in Bioactive Materials, demonstrates that the spatial organization of magnetic nanoparticles within hydrogels improves their response to external magnetic stimuli and promotes cell proliferation and organization.