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The third edition of the ranking of female researchers from Spanish and international institutions prepared by the CSIC highlights four researchers from the BBT (Maria-Pau Ginebra, Cristina Canal, Montserrat Español and Maria Godoy-Gallardo), and 138 from the UPC. The ranking includes all Spanish women scientists who have an H index equal to, or higher than, 18.

A group of PhD students made up of four students from BBT (Daniel Cabrerizo, Paula Urdalleta, Raúl Agut and Shana Jin) and one from CIEFMA (Diego Ruiz) from UPC were the winners of the Dermachallenge, proposed by Almirall, at the Healtech 2030 Innovation Challenge this year.

David Baker, director of the Institute for Protein Design (IPD) at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle), supervisor of Jordi Guillem-Marti during his Marie Curie Global Fellowship in the USA (2019-2021) and current collaborator of the group, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions in using machine learning to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins and designing them from scratch.

AMES Biomedical has recently received the Best Sintered Part Award 2024 by the European Powder Metallurgy Association for their OsteoSinter® EVANS and COTTON wedges®, developed in collaboration with the BBT and used for the correction of foot deformities

Sílvia Gómez, a PhD student at the BBT within the Biomedical Engineering program, ranked second in the IV edition of the UPC's #HiloTesis scientific dissemination competition.

Recently, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) has published the final resolution for the granting of funding for the PID 2023 call. Among the funded projects, we find "DYNAMIC: Multifunctional dynamic biomaterials stimuli-responsive: addressing cellular responses and antibacterial properties for bone tissue engineering", led by Dr. Carles Mas Moruno and Dr. María Godoy Gallardo.

Lluis Oliver Cervelló has been awarded by the UPC with the 2024 Extraordinary Doctoral Award (for the 2021/2022 promotion) in the field of Industrial Engineering.

Once the final resolution of the AGAUR 2024 Indústria del Coneixement grants call has been published, we can confirm that two projects presented by BBT researchers have been chosen to receive funding.

Daniel Cabrerizo and Sílvia Gómez, both PhD students at BBT, have obtained Fund Seed funding from the Unite! Foundation to implement their project "EmpowerAI: Inclusive pathways to digital learning", together with their partners Yuchen Fan (Politecnico di Torino, IT) and Samuel Grausgruber (TU Graz, DE).

BBT PhD student Patricia López wins 2nd Prize in the "Present your thesis in 3 minutes" competition, organized by Unite! Doctoral School in the context of the XI Unite! Dialogue, held in Barcelona from February 25th to the 28th, 2025.

Tània Vilella, a PhD student at BBT and CIEFMA, and Jan Grzelak, a postdoctoral researcher working at ERC BAMBBI project, are currently undertaking two research stays in Sweden and the UK, respectively.