Xavier Rovira, principal investigator at IBEC, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. These prestigious grants are awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and social potential of research projects carried out at European institutions. Rovira's project seeks to develop the EVOaware platform, which is designed to address tumour resistance to therapies and accelerate the discovery and development of new cancer treatments.

Manuel Salmeron, principal investigator at IBEC, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. These prestigious grants are awarded by the European Research Council to explore the commercial and social potential of research projects carried out at European institutions. Salmeron's project, FACTORINK, focuses on designing functional bioinks with biological activity for printing artificial tissues.

In recent years, every new car driver has been getting used to bells and beeps. As automakers try to make cars safer, they’ve introduced increasingly sophisticated driving assistance systems, to warn a driver when they’re drifting out of their lane or someone’s in their blind spot. But do these features actually improve safety? New research from Ashish Agarwal, associate professor of information, risk, and operations management at Texas McCombs, says not always. By considering how human beings react to different kinds of warning signals, he suggests, automakers could better reduce risky driving behaviors.

“When they’re designing these features, they have to be aware that in some cases, they may make behaviors worse,” Agarwal says.