Patricia López and her workshop "Biomaterials for bone tissue regeneration" are part of the 16ª Festa de la Ciència
Jun 27, 2023
PhD student Patricia López offered a workshop on "Biomaterials for bone tissue regeneration" at the 16ª Festa de la Ciència, organized by Ajuntament de Barcelona on June 10-11th, 2023.
PhD student Patricial López offered a workshop on "Biomaterials for the regeneration of bone tissue" at the 16th Science Festival, organized by Ajuntament de Barcelona on June 10-11th, 2023.
With 176 activities, 25 spaces and more than 150 participating entities from the city, all of them related to science and its dissemination, this year's edition was one of the most crowded.
Patricia gave her workshop on "Biomaterials for the regeneration of bone tissue" on June 11th at Rambla Prim, with the collaboration of Tihare Aroa Cortés Muñoz from the Prometeus Programe, with a diverse public of all ages, from children to elders, with a majority of families attending.
The workshop focused on biomaterials (and more particularly, hydrogels), which play an integral role in medicine today, as they restore function and facilitate people's recovery after injury or illness. Patícia López tells us that "it was a practical workshop where the participants could be "scientists for the day". All the attendees were able to make their own hydrogels and learn a little more about the biomaterials that scientists work on daily basis in the laboratory". In addition, the workshop itself was "a highly enriching and rewarding event on a professional and personal level. Bringing science closer to all audiences and encouraging new possible vocations with activities and events like this are a clear and obvious symptom that we are moving in the right direction".
Patricia is part of the research team at the projects Bio-TUNE: Fine tune of cellular behavior: multifunctional materials for medical implants (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 872869) and SMARTGEL: Bioactive and multifunctional peptide-based hydrogels obtained by bottom-up self-assembly for advanced biomedical applications (AEI, PID2020-114019RB-I00), both led by professor and researcher Carles Mas-Moruno.
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