By the deadline of September 11th 2016, IBEC had received a total of 49 applications for the BEST COFUND postdoc programme from 22 different nationalities.
Twelve of these candidates are granted a BEST COFUND postdoc fellowship for a duration of 24 months at IBEC.
| Fellow | Country | Project | IBEC Group |
| Livia Neves Borgheti Cardoso | Brazil | Extracellular vesicles as chloroquine drug delivery system to treatment of Malaria | Nanomalaria |
| Rossella Castagna | Italy | Targeted Covalent Photoswitches for Vision Restoration in Degenerated Retina | Nanoprobes and nanoswitches |
| María García Díaz | Spain | Engineering a biomimetic 3D intestinal model for advanced drug screening | Biomimetic systems for cell engineering |
| Ricardo Hidalgo González | Costa Rica | Bacterial nanowires: electron transport properties and application to nanobiosensor development | Nanoscale bioelectrical characterization |
| Carmen Hurtado del Pozo | Spain | Developing regenerative strategies for kidney healing | Pluripotent stem cells and activation of endogenous tissue programs for organ regeneration |
| Adrica Kyndiah | India | Integration of Electrolyte-Gated Organic Synapstor (EGOS) on scanning probe set-ups for simultaneous nanoscale imaging, manipulation and extracellular electrical recordings | Nanoscale bioelectrical characterization |
| Sílvia Mas García | Spain | Combination of MALDI imaging mass spectrometry with computational data analysis tools to characterize tumor heterogeneity. A multidisciplinary approach | Signal and information processing for sensing systems |
| Lourdes Rivas Torcates | Venezuela | Integrated microfluidic platform for early stroke identification | Nanobioengineering |
| Agostino Romeo | Italy | Contact lens sensors for advanced point-of-care diagnostics (SPOC) | Smart nano-bio-devices |
| Diana Vilela García | Spain | Smart core-double-shell nanoparticles for specific and effective action against bacterial infection at different environments | Smart nano-bio-devices |
| Marija Vukomanovic | Serbia | Artificial Analogous of Antimicrobial Peptides as Next Generation of Antimicrobials | Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies |
| Lei Wang | China | Fabrication of Janus micromotor based on protein self-assembly for targeted drug delivery | Smart nano-bio-devices |