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Anna Duarri Piqué

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Ophtalmology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca

Anna Duarri Piqué

Institutions of which they are part

Main researcher
Ophtalmology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca

Research lines

CeO2 Nanoparticles-assisted stem-based cell therapy: an innovative nanopharmaceutical approach to treat retinal degenerative diseases

Chronic inflammation is now regarded as a major pathogenic pathway common in many different pathologies. This is the case of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a disease currently inevitable, orphan of treatment that represents a major cause of blindness in people over 50, and affects millions of people worldwide. The progression of AMD is associated to an increase of oxidative stress and inflammatory response in the eye leading to retinal cell death. Current studies suggest that antioxidant therapies for chronic inflammation treatment are a feasible objective to stop disease progression and represent a promising strategy to improve the therapeutic benefits of regenerative medicine to restore vision (since inflammation impedes proper regeneration). CeO2nanoparticles have a unique electronic structure that when reduced to the nanoscale, oxygen defects appear at their surface, behaving as sites for free radical scavenging. Thus, the main objective of CELLUX is to develop a novel pharmaceutical-based CeO2 nanoparticles eye drops to treat AMD that in combination with stem cell-based therapeutic strategies, will not only stop degeneration but restore vision. The accomplishment of the objectives will represent a significant advance in the current concept of nanomedicine to treat degenerative diseases.

IP: Anna Duarri Piqué

Projects

A Pilot Study: The Safety and Biodistribution of CeO2NP Eye Drops as Ocular antioxidant Agent on Rabbit Eyes

IP: Victor Franco Puntes
Collaborators: José García Arumí, Anna Duarri Piqué, Miguel Angel Zapata Victori
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 15000
Reference: VHIR-FIT-24-003
Duration: 13/12/2024 - 12/12/2025

BIOBANCOS Y BIOMODELOS

IP: Isabel Novoa Garcia
Collaborators: Joaquim Vives Armengol, Anna Duarri Piqué, Eva Colas Ortega, Oriol Bestard Matamoros, Marta Rosal Fontana, Carmen Espejo Ruiz, Marielle Esteves Coelho, Juan Jose Gonzalez Lopez, Sheyla Pascual Martín, Alejandro Tomasello Weitz, Shirley Guzmán Avilés
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 137460
Reference: PT23/00040
Duration: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2026

Administración tópica (colirio) de sitagliptina como tratamiento para la retinopatía diabética proliferativa (TopSit@)

IP: Rafael Simó Canonge
Collaborators: Anna Duarri Piqué, Cristina Hernández Pascual, Patricia Bogdanov Baruj
Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 128570
Reference: PDC2022-133991-I00
Duration: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2024

Ministerio de Ciencia

Oftalmologia

IP: José García Arumí
Collaborators: Javier José Puig Galy, Anna Duarri Piqué, Ana Boixadera Espax, Helena Isla Magrané, Claudia Garcia-Arumí Fusté, Miguel Angel Zapata Victori, Sara Martin Nalda, Laura Natalia Distefano
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 0.01
Reference: 2021 SGR 00994
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 30/06/2025

Related news

On January 24, a session was held to explain what these three-dimensional models are and what advantages they have, as well as to review some of their applications in research.

Els estudis avançaran en els camps de les malalties digestives, el VIH, la fatiga crònica, les patologies cardíaques, l’hepatitis, la diabetis i l’oftalmologia.

Dr. José García Arumi and Dr. Anna Duarri from the Ophthalmology research group at Vall Hebron Recerca lead the project. 

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