@zaidaalvarez.bsky.social was interviewed by Business Insider España after winning the Health Research 2025 Call to study new treatments for spinal cord injuries
🧾 https://f.mtr.cool/rikybgepnx

The newly announced ERC Consolidator Grants will support research into children’s mental health treatments, tumor-targeting nanotechnology, early sepsis detection, protein machines, Rome’s efforts to avoid collapse... and much more ✴

Congratulations to all!

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Here are some facts and figures from the 2025 Consolidator Grant call:

🔶 €728 million in funding

🔶 349 mid-career researchers from Europe and beyond

🔶 44 different nationalities

All of them pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Congratulations!

#ERCCoG #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Excited to share amazing news — I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG! 🚀
With SPINECRAFT at @ibecbarcelona.eu, we’ll engineer a 4D human spinal cord model to revolutionize how we study and treat neurodegenerative diseases. 👀: f.mtr.cool/evplnehjmj
@erc.europa.eu @www.pcb.ub.edu @cerca.cat @fcri.bsky.social

1/ Finding therapies for spinal cord injuries isn't easy as laboratory models don't accurately reflect the conditions in human tissue.

With a #HealthResearch grant, @zaidaalvarez.bsky.social is developing miniature spinal cords (organoids) to test new therapies.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz284h4

#PCBCommunity |👩‍🔬 La Dra. @zaidaalvarez.bsky.social , investigadora del grup de #biomaterials per a la regeneració neural de @ibecbarcelona.eu, liderarà un projecte finançat per @caixaresearch.bsky.social pel disseny d’una plataforma d’assaig de #tractaments per lesions medul·lars.🏥

👉 tuit.cat/cE6qn

Reconeixement per Zaida Álvarez, investigadora de l’IBEC, que ha rebut un ajut #HealthResearch de @caixaresearch.bsky.social per a desenvolupar una nova plataforma d’assaig de tractaments per les lesions medul·lars.
@zaidaalvarez.bsky.social @albertoortegalab.bsky.social @idibell.bsky.social @ub.edu

Don’t miss Anna Vilche, PhD candidate from @zaidaalvarez.bsky.social group at @ibecbarcelona.eu , presenting our latest work on peptide-functionalized nanocarriers for controlled drug delivery after SCI🧠✨

📍 #ESB2025 — Turin, Italy
🗓️ Wed, 10 Sept | 17:45–19:15 CEST
📌 Room: 500

🚀 Excited to share that Palash Chandravanshi, PhD candidate from the @zaidaalvarez.bsky.social group at @ibecbarcelona.eu , will present our latest work on supramolecular BDNF-mimetic hydrogels for SCI repair 🧠

📍 #ESB2025 Turin, Italy
🗓️ Wed, 10 Sept | 08:15–09:45 CEST
📌 Room: Istanbul

🚨 Today is the last day to get early bird registration for the SEMIT 2025 - Congress of the Spanish Society for Regenerative Medicine & Tissue Engineering!

However... tomorrow we are opening late breaking abstracts!

🗓 Save the date! October 2nd and 3rd
🔗 events.ibecbarcelona.eu/semit2025/

In collaboration with @zaidaalvarez.bsky.social we're looking for talented #JuanDeLaCierva applicants to join us on refining iPSC-based spinal cord model systems by fabricating developmentally programmed extracellular matrix cues.

If you're passionate about #Neuroscience and #stemcells, apply now!

Welcome to my Bluesky account! Excited to share updates from the Biomaterials for Neural Regeneration group at @ibecbarcelona. We study neuronal regeneration to develop innovative strategies for repairing the CNS, focusing on spinal cord injuries.