By the deadline of April 30th 2018, IBEC had received a total of 68 applications for the BEST COFUND postdoc programme from 26 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 |
| Yunuen Avalos Padilla | Mexico | Exploring the role of ESCRT machinery in the release of extracellular vesicles during Plasmodium infection | Nanomalaria |
| Bárbara Blanco Fernández | Spain | Development and study of cell-derived extracellular matrix obtained from breast cancer cell lines as 3D cancer models | Biomaterials for regenerative therapies |
| Mireia Calvo González | Spain | Characterization of chronic respiratory diseases through the development and validation of novel signal-processing and model-based approaches for personalized medicine | Biomedical signal processing and interpretation |
| Marco de Corato | Italy | An integrated computational and experimental predictive framework for the chemo-hydrodynamics of active catalytic colloidal particles in complex environments | Group of Associated Researcher Marino Arroyo |
| Laura Catalina Córdoba Román | Colombia | Personalized 3D-printed Zn-based bioabsorbable stents: a new paradigm in percutaneous coronary intervention | Group of Associated Researcher María-Pau Ginebra |
| Clare Davidson | Ireland | Multimodal physiological biomarkers and mHealth tools for non-invasive monitoring and assessment of asthmatic and COPD patients | Biomedical signal processing and interpretation |
| Luciana Fontes de Oliveira | Brazil | Development of Computational Metabolomics Methods to evaluate the risk to suffer Bronchial Infections in Chronic Respiratory Diseases Patients | Signal and information processing for sensing systems |
| Rafael Freire | Brazil | Volatile Biomarker discovery in flatus by GC-MS and GC-IMS to diagnose digestive disorders and diseases | Signal and information processing for sensing systems |
| Galyna Malieieva | Ukraine | ClopHensor-based in vivo monitoring and photo-switchable modulation of chloride intraneuronal concentration | Nanoprobes and nanoswitches |
| Vladimir Mulens Arias | Cuba | Deciphering the immune-regulating potential of ICAM-1-targeted nanocarriers toward an immunotherapeutic application | Targeted therapeutics and nanodevices |
| Renata Kelly Da Palma | Brazil | Heart bioengineering: enhancing vascular re-endothelialization by physical stimuli | Biomimetic systems for cell engineering |
| Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh | India | Isolation of bacteriophages and lytic enzymes for targeted treatment of chronic bacterial lung infections | Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies |