Dr. Xavier Gallart-Palau at the Institut Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, together with Dr Aida Serra of the IMDEA Research Institute Food & Health Sciences in Madrid, Spain, and with Dr. Siu Kwan Sze of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, is driving forward research concerning …

The use of pesticides represents a risk to human and environmental health, with recent research findings suggesting an association of exposure with increased risk of health problems, including Parkinson’s disease, reproductive and developmental issues and cancer, whilst affecting the health of soil, water, and biodiversity.

The Medical Imaging Research Group at IDIBGI receives funding to carry out the ProCAncer-I project, which aims to develop a platform to support clinical decision making in prostate cancer through medical imaging and artificial intelligence. ProCAncer-I project brings together 20 partners from 11 different …

According to the World Health Organisation, over 422 million people have diabetes. Many have to regulate their condition by administering insulin several times a day, either by injection or insulin pump. Currently there is no decision support system for insulin dosing on the market that …

These samples are stored and will be used for future research on this disease The biobank of the Lleida Institute for Biomedical Research (IRBLleida) has so far collected 4,787 samples of blood, plasma and serum from 368 patients who have suffered from COVID-19. Also a …

Obesity and metabolic diseases related to excess weight such as type 2 diabetes, are a veritable 21st century epidemic, despite preventive measures being widely known. This is causing a huge impact on public health systems, with far reaching psychosocial consequences. However, no cost effective treatment …

In the moments which we are living now reading is an alternative to travel. Don’t miss your chance to learn more about obesity and diabetes type 2 specialist Professor Sonia Fernandez Veledo. Associate Professor Sonia Fernandez is the DIAMET research group leader in the …

Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased cardiovascular risk in patients without previous heart disease. This is the result of research carried out in Lleida, which has recently been published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, …

The biobank of the Lleida Institute for Biomedical Research (IRBLleida) has so far collected 4,787 samples of blood, plasma and serum from 368 patients who have suffered from COVID-19. Also a brief collection of samples of respiratory origin (bronchoaspirates). These samples are stored and will …

Our mission within SOPHIA is to enable healthcare professionals to reliably predict the complications of obesity and who will respond to treatment Prof. Carel le Roux, coordinator of SOPHIA and obesity physician at the Diabetes Complications Research Centre at University College Dublin Obesity is a …