Eduardo Arzt, Director of IBioBA, during the inauguration. Eduardo Arzt, Director of the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IBioBA, CONICET – Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society), attended the opening ceremony of the new Applied Biotechnology Laboratory of CEDIC in Asunción, Paraguay. CEDIC, along with IBioBA; the Central Public Health Laboratory of the…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research of Germany are working at IBioBA to understand the role of certain proteins in pulmonary hypertension and lung infection. In 2007 the group directed by Eduardo Arzt, researcher of CONICET and Director of the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IBioBA, CONICET – Partner…
Mariana Fuertes- Photo: IBioBA, CONICET-MPSP. Researcher at IBioBA describe for the first time a mechanism used by these cells to divide, uncontrolled. The group led by Eduardo Arzt, director of the IBioBA and senior researcher of CONICET, published a new study in the journal Endocrine-Related Cancer, where they demonstrate for the first time how the…
Prof. Mordechai Sheves of the Weizmann Institute of Israel visited our Institute yesterday accompanied by Dr. Patricio Yankilevich, IBioBA´s Bioinformatics Platform Head. Upon arrival he was received by Dr. Arzt, Director of the Institute, with whom he talked about the lines of research and work of the Max Planck Institute in Argentina.
Heidrun Tempel, Director for Research and Academic Relations Policy and Cultural Relations Policy of the Foreign Affairs Office of Germany, visited our institute yesterday accompanied by Kathrin Megerle, Adviser of Scientific and University Affairs of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Buenos Aires. They met with Dr. Eduardo Arzt, Director of the…
Sixteen speakers participated in the meeting. Fellows of the Institute organized the workshop ‘Neurobiology Perspectives’ held on May 16 and 17, within the framework of the FOCEM Biomedicine Network Project of MERCOSUR, in which the IBioBA participates. The objectives were to present and learn about the latest advances in neurobiology, as well as to promote…
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Arzt, Director of the IBioBA, was appointed member of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America (ACAL), an institution whose mission is “to promote and contribute to the development of the mathematical, physical, chemical, life and earth sciences and their applications for the benefit of the development and human, cultural and social…
Morelli, Lengyel, Petrungaro, Fabris and Fernández Arancibia. At IBioBA, a team of physicists led by Luis Morelli works with biologists to understand how cells communicate to take joint decisions. You can find this story published in the website of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) (in Spanish)
Carolina Pérez Castro, group leader of ‘Cancer stem cells and cell plasticity’. Tumor stem cells have the ability to divide or acquire properties of other cells and, in this way, the tumor grows and evolves. To know the mechanisms that play a role in these processes is fundamental in the search for potential treatments. You…
This day seeks to raise awareness about the difference in access to science between genders. At IBioBA, more than 66% of the scientific staff are women. The General Assembly of the United Nations declared on February 11 the International Day of Women and Girls in Science “in order to achieve full and equal access to…