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CIC nanoGUNE launches its new quantum hardware laboratories, equipped with a unique infrastructure for developing silicon-based quantum chips in collaboration with Quantum Motion. The new Quantum Tower consolidates the Basque Country as a major hub for quantum-technology development and positions the project as an important milestone in research, innovation, and technology transfer.

In an article published in Nature Nanotechnology, the Ikerbasque Research Professor Mariana Medina-Sánchez, leader of CIC nanoGUNE’s Nanobiosystems group, gives their perspective on the significant advances taking place in reproductive medicine. A notable example of this progress is the recent study published by her own group in Advanced Materials; the study deals with miniaturised, non-invasive, precise robotic catheters which they have developed for use in reproductive medicine and gynaecological health. 

Thirty-four Basque organizations join forces in the 10^th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian (Women in Science) to run a broad program of activities highlighting the power of collectivity. “Marea bizia gara” / “We are the spring tide” is a way of understanding the project and the path it aims to go on treading. Registrations for the various activities are now open at www.emakumeakzientzian.eus.

CIC nanoGUNE has just launched the program for summer internships, which runs every year. University students are offered the chance to get involved in the activity of a world-class research center. 

A recent study published in Physical Review Letters and carried out by researchers from EHU, the Materials Physics Center, nanoGUNE, and DIPC introduces a groundbreaking approach to solar energy conversion and spintronics. The work tackles a long-standing limitation in the bulk photovoltaic effect—the need for non-centrosymmetric crystals—by demonstrating that even perfectly symmetric materials can generate significant photocurrents through engineered surface electronic states. This discovery opens new pathways for designing efficient light-to-electricity conversion systems and ultrafast spintronic devices.

Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Center for Materials Physics (CFM), have experimentally observed and theoretically verified flat-band ultrastrong coupling between optical phonons and surface plasmon polaritons. Published in Nature Materials, the study reveals a previously unexplored regime of light–matter interaction with potential applications in polariton-driven chemistry, materials science, nanophotonics, and quantum engineering.

Project QuDos will focus on using quantum dots as the basis for building entirely new, ultra-low-power microwave control electronics. The research will be run within the framework of the research collaboration agreement between CIC nanoGUNE and Quantum Motion.

A new international study led by the Nanobiosystems group at CIC nanoGUNE, is developing miniature, non-invasive, precise robotic catheters for use in reproductive medicine and gynaecological health. This research, which was recently published in the prestigious journal Advanced Materials, has the potential to improve infertility treatments, for example, and enable the highly localized release of drugs and cells.

The new enterprise, due to be set up in December, will be optimising cell cultures by combining Raman spectroscopy, nanoparticles and AI. This technology allows the early detection of culture anomalies and greater efficiency in accelerating cancer treatments such as CAR-T.

Today, nanoGUNE welcomed the Hamaiketako de Gerentes (CEO's Breakfast) organized by ENNE Fundazioa, bringing together 35 CEOs from Basque companies to reflect on the role of leadership face to technological challenges.