5th Annual Meeting of the

ISMRM Iberian Chapter

3rd - 4th July 2025 · Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona

ORGANIZED BY

CONTACT

ibeccommunications@ibecbarcelona.eu

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Irene Marco Rius (IBEC)
Maria Alejandra Ortega Machuca (IBEC)
Ana Paula Candiota (UAB)
Margarida Julià-Sapé (UAB)
Emma Muñoz Moreno (IDIBAPS)
Silvia Lope-Piedrafita (UAB)
Ignasi Barba Vert (VHIO)
Marina Benito (UCM)
Francesco Grussu (VHIO)
David Gómez Cabeza (IBEC)

5th Annual Meeting of the

ISMRM IBERIAN CHAPTER

The ISMRM Iberian Chapter is blooming maturely as a shared environment between scientists and clinicians in the magnetic resonance imaging field. 

The meeting will be an opportunity for academic and social interaction, and we will be honored to have the following distinguished speakers.

 

In this 5th meeting, we will offer an exciting 2-day scientific program. Plenary lectures will feature leading experts in clinical, preclinical, and computational MRI. In addition, oral sessions and poster sessions will showcase the latest research findings in our community, while industry will have the opportunity to showcase their latest technological innovations in the field and contact future users.

 

As we believe in the importance of networking, there will be ample opportunities to connect during the coffee breaks. 

I look forward to meeting you in Barcelona!

SESSION TOPICS

Acquisition & Reconstruction
AI and Machine Learning
Analysis Methods
Cardiovascular
Contrast Mechanisms
Diffusion
MRI
Interventional
Musculoskeletal
Neuro
Pediatrics
Physics & Engineering
Preclinical

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES

Start of Abstract Submission period: 17/2/2025
End of Abstract Submission period: 31/3/2025 

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

EARLY BIRD RATE
Payment before/on 19th May 2025

Students 80€
Regular 120€

LATE RATE
Payment after 19th May 2025

Students 100€
Regular 150€

Conference dinner

Regular 30€

VAT NOT included


The registration fee covers attendance to all sessions, lunches and coffee/tea breaks  during the conference, conference dinner and conference materials.


Conference cancellation policy

VENUE

IBEC Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona
C/ Baldiri Reixac 10-12
08028 Barcelona

ROOMATE FINDER

Please find below the QR code leading to a whatsapp group where students can make arrangements to share a room with other attendees of the meeting, and thus contain accommodation costs:

SPEAKERS

Meritxell Bach

Center for Biomedical Imaging

Rui Vasco Simoes

Institute for Research and Innovation in Health

André F. Martins

University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
PROGRAMME (TBA)
13:00 – 14:00MRI Basics (Theory and Acquisition) 
(Speaker: TBA)
14:00 – 15:00

MRI Fast Imaging (Diffusion MRI and fMRI)
(Speaker: TBA)

15:00 – 15:45Break
15:45 – 16:45

Spectroscopic Imaging (13C Hyperpolarisation)
(Speaker: TBA)

16:45 – 17:45MRI Data Processing and AI Automation (complemented with example Python scripts
(Speaker: TBA)
17:45 – 19:00 MRI Basics Workshop in IBEC’s 3T Bruker MRI
(Speaker: TBA)
  
 

* Times and lectures are subject to changes based on attendees interests indicated in the registration form.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

POSTER SESSION

The conference includes poster sessions and contributed oral presentations where you will have the opportunity to present your work and discuss it with your colleagues.

Abstract submission deadline: 21/01/2024
Notification of acceptance: 13/02/2024

SATELLITE PROGRAM

Date: 25th April · 11 AM to 12.30 PM
Room: Rosalind Franklin

IMAB Project: Involving the Senior Community in Advances in Bioengineering for health and healthy aging.
Can we repair a broken heart?

Within the framework of the EMBL conference, we want to bring research closer to the society. In this year’s edition, we want to involve citizens over 65 years of age so that they know, understand and give their opinion on the latest research in Engineering of Multicellular Systems. For this reason, we will carry out workshop for them within the IMAB project, funded by the FECYT, about Organ and Tissue Regeneration.

From these workshops, we aim to collect information about the opinions of this age group about the latest scientific progress. All the opinions will be collected in a report with the aim that they are considered when designing new research projects. 

ABOUT US

EMBL Barcelona

Scientists at EMBL Barcelona explore how tissues and organs function and develop, in health and disease.

We combine a number of themes and approaches to achieve this:

  • The development and use of 3D in vitro models, (organoids, vascular systems, and others) where the dynamic structure and function of multicellular systems is more accessible to measurement and manipulation than in vivo.
  • Quantitative approaches and computational modelling, to create more a rigorous understanding and predictions of the dynamics of multicellular systems.
  • 3D and 4D mesoscopic imaging tailored towards tissues, organs and organoids. We develop and improve these state-of-the-art technologies, as well as using them for our research.
  • An engineering and synthetic philosophy, in which building and creating new biological models is a key part of understanding and controlling them.

Using these approaches, EMBL Barcelona studies a variety of multicellular questions:

  • Organogenesis – how a complex mammalian organ (the limb bud) develops, grows and organises itself during development.
  • Scaling – how dynamic patterning processes change their relative speeds and sizes, across different tissues and species.
  • Self-organisation – how collectives of cells spontaneously break-symmetry and cooperate to organise themselves into functional tissues.
  • Vasculogenesis – how blood vessels organise themselves into networks, and how this can be harnessed for improved tissue engineering and disease modelling.
  • Vascular diseases – how genetic or infectious diseases interact with vascular system to cause pathologies, such as malaria.

Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) is a leading-edge multidisciplinary research centre based in Barcelona that conducts excellent research at the frontiers of basic and life sciences linked with engineering to generate new knowledge and applications that helps to enhance health and quality of life.

IBEC create wealth by putting together biophysics, cell engineering, nanomedicine, biomaterials, tissue engineering and the applications of information technology to health.

IBEC is a non-profit-making foundation set up in 2005 by the Departments of Health and Innovation, Universities and Enterprise of the Government of Catalonia, the University of Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia.

At IBEC, frontier research is combined with specific transfer targets to produce new applied technologies to be used in life and health sciences. We have the versatility to generate excellent research and, at the same time, work with clinicians and industry to develop new diagnostic or treatment systems. The model envisaged by IBEC is inspired by a creative, innovative new ecosystem based on interaction between research experts in different enabling technologies (nano-bio-info-cogno) to generate new knowledge and engineering solutions in health technology.

The knowledge that exists in IBEC is placed at the service of science and society to progress in three major research programmes:

  • Bioengineering for future medicine, with the aim of developing technology that goes beyond the existing paradigm of medical care in hospital to incorporate new areas such as personalize medicine, tailoring diagnostic and therapies to the individual, optopharmacology, diagnosis and therapies based on mechanobiology and nanomedicine.
  • Bioengineering for active ageing, with the aim of developing care and technology and improve the quality of life of an increasing older population. Assisted living technologies such as mobile health solutions, including home-based devices and services for remote monitoring, consultation and diagnosis are developed.
  • Bioengineering for regenerative therapies, with the aim of developing regenerative technologies to allow the creation of implants able to bring about the regeneration of damaged tissues or organs and to develop cell therapies.