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Maria-Pau Ginebra gave the inaugural lecture to the 28th edition of the Course "Research Methodology in Periodontics", promoted by the Spanish Society of Periodontics (SEPA) and Dentaid, held in Santiago de Compostela on February 24th.

Newest podcast of the 'Algorrritmes UPC' series delves into the world of bioengineering to discover, with the help of our ERC researchers Cristina Canal and Maria-Pau Ginebra, how new materials can be developed to fight infections, or innovative therapies to treat bone cancer.

During this week, several BBT researchers have carried out science dissemination tasks, such as participating in three YouTube videos where, on the one hand, we explain the research carried out at the BBT and, on the other, we represent the diversity that prevails at UPC.

Since October 2020, Prof. Maria-Pau Ginebra has offered several talks for CaixaForum around the topic "3D Bioprinting: Are we close to personalised medicine?", as part of the series "The revolution of 3D-Printing", the last of which took place in CaixaForum Madrid, on the 17th of April, 2023.

The RESPO-X Erasmus Project Learning, Teaching and Training Meeting (LTTA) for the validation of the learning application was held at the Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE) from the 24th to the 28th April, 2023.

Prof. Maria-Pau Ginebra has been nominated as new President of the Research Assessment Committee by AQU Catalunya's Government Council.

Milica Zivanic and Sílvia Gómez, both PhD students at BBT, 1st and 3rd in the "Present your thesis in 4 minutes" UPC competition. Zivanic will represent our university in the final of the competition, which will be held at CaixaFòrum Lleida on June 22nd. Patricia López, who is also a PhD student in our research group, was the winner of the #HiloThesis 2023 and will represent the university at national level.

Two PhD students at BBT, David Piñera and Sílvia Gómez, are currently in two research stays in Glasgow (UK) and Udine (Italy), respectively. On the other hand, the BBT currently hosts two Postdoctoral researchers, María Godoy-Gallardo (UIC, Spain) and Miguel A. Quiliano (UPC, Peru), and a doctoral student, Irene Mallor (UIC), carrying out research stays with different researchers of the group.

PhD student Victor Chausse, FI-AGAUR Fellow, presents his Doctoral thesis at EEBE, within the Doctoral program in Materials Science and Engineering.

Prof. Maria-Pau Ginebra and Dr. Cristina Canal, both part of the BBT, have been included in the second edition of the ranking of the most outstanding female scientists, recently published by the CSIC. The ranking ranks women scientists who have an h-index equal to or greater than 18.