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 OP&B team are collaborating with the fundraising initiative “Project Emma” (http://projecteemma.org/). The project is an initiative of the Doctor Ferran Foundation and aims to find to develop computer-aided digital image analysis patterns for quantitative automated evaluation of specific markers of tumour and non-tumour …

The HERO Office is excited to announce the launch of the GO_HERO 2020 Call to support the most promising researchers from the IISPV, IDIBGI and IRBLleida. This Call aims to support senior researchers in developing their international career by training them to write successful European …

The IISPV group TecnATox lead by Prof Domingo, is a member of the winning consortium SPRINT (Sustainable Plant Protection Transition: A Global Health Approach). The SPRINT Consortium will develop and validate a Global Health Risk Assessment Toolbox to evaluate the impact of plant protection products …

A study led by the Medical Oncology faculty of the Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida University Hospital and researcher at the Lleida Biomedical Research Institute (IRBLleida), Serafín Morales, which investigates a personalized treatment for early stages of breast cancer, has been selected by the …

His research has confirmed that people generate new neurons throughout life The researcher María Llorens of the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center will give a session about the brain regeneration during physiological and pathological aging, tomorrow, February 19, at 12 noon, in the auditorium of …

The project “Gut-Brain-axis: Targets for improvement of cognition in the elderly (SmartAge)”, in which Dr. Fernández-Real participates, has been approved by the European Commission. The project will start in September 2020 at IDIBGI and will be active for 4 years. SmartAge …

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, …

More than 1,100 people have taken tests for the prevention of cardiovascular and renal diseases for the second time to see their evolution. ‘El Bus de la Salut’ has incorporated this year the use of a bioimpedance electric scale, a new test to estimate the …

An international study that has just been published in the scientific journal The New England Journal of Medicine has shown that the administration of niraparib after conventional chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer improves their progression-free survival and reduces the risk of …

The study “Cognitive function and obesity in prepubertal children: the effect of maternal obesity, prenatal and postnatal growth and environmental factors”, promoted by the Institute for Biomedical Research of Girona (IDIBGI), received on Thursday June 27th one of the seven Merck 2019 grants, in the …