The centre – dependent on the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRBLleida) – is dedicated to biomedical research and training using the porcine model and works in the areas of surgery, gynaecology, urology, nephrology… The CREBA centre (Centre de Recerca Experimental …

With these results, discussions will be held with the Department of Health to implement screening in asymptomatic young people A study carried out in Lleida by Oriol Yuguero, head of the Urgency and Emergency Multi-disciplinary Research Group at the Institute of Biomedical Research of …

A study led in Lleida claims that working conditions are detrimental to their physical and psychosocial health Colonial logic – based on servility and discriminatory practices towards migrants – harms the physical and psychosocial health of Latin American women working in the domestic sector in …

The research group Neuronal Signalling Unit of the Lleida Biomedical Research Institute (IRBLleida) and the University of Lleida (UdL) has made important progress in establishing a new strategy in the therapeutic treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, a disorder that leads to weakness and progressive muscle …

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, has awarded Prof Jordi Salas Salvadó, deputy director of the Health Research Institute Pere Virgili (IISPV), the ICREA Academy 2019 award. The ICREA Academia Program aims to encourage and reward excellence in research and teaching among professionals …

Sabadell Assegurances has donated €75,000 to help fund the technological infrastructure needed to do scientific research to find a Covid-19 vaccine. The donation will allow 9 Catalan biobanks to get equipment like special freezers or liquid nitrogen tanks, to store samples used to research the …

The first STEM Women’s Congress was held in Barcelona this November. The aim of this congress is to secure a gender balance in the scientific environment by encouraging and supporting women to develop their professional careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Dr. Elisabet Vilella, …

The provincial entity finances with 279,300 € the incorporation of this personnel. Ten researchers in training at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Lleida (IRBLleida) benefit for one year of the call for grants for the Promotion of Health Research, which finances with the € …

The “Ageing Imagenome” project ended the first phase of recruitment and data collection, with the exhaustive study of 1.030 volunteers. The analysis of this information will allow to obtain more than 10 million data in order to identify aging patterns. This morning, the project presentation …

The Infection and Immunity (INIM) research group at the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) have participated on an AIDS Research Network (RETICS-RIS) of the Carlos III Institute of Health that studied Elite Controllers (EC). Some HIV patients have the ability to control the virus …

Prof. Joan Vendrell Ortega has been elected as the new president of the Catalan Association of Diabetes during the XV congress meeting earlier March this year. Prof. Vendrell, the Director of the Endocrinology Department at the University Hospital Joan XXIII, and the director of the …