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Joan Genescà Ferrer

Internal medicine doctor expert in hepatology. Special dedication to advanced liver disease, liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Interest in non-invasive methods for the diagnosis and control of liver disease, especially liver elastography. Both clinical and experimental research in animal models of liver disease, including therapeutic studies with nanomedicine.

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Liver Diseases
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Hepatologia
General Hospital

Joan Genescà Ferrer

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Liver Diseases
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Hepatologia
General Hospital

Internal medicine doctor expert in hepatology. Special dedication to advanced liver disease, liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Interest in non-invasive methods for the diagnosis and control of liver disease, especially liver elastography. Both clinical and experimental research in animal models of liver disease, including therapeutic studies with nanomedicine.

Chief Liver Unit.
Clinical director of Digestive Diseases.
Professor of Medicine of the UAB.

Projects

pendent

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Mònica Pons Delgado
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 180000
Reference: JR21/00064
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2025

Plataforma ISCIII de soporte para la Investigación Clínica

IP: Inmaculada Fuentes Camps
Collaborators: Gemma Vona Giralt, Antonio Moreno Galdó, Rafael Simó Canonge, Núria Pérez Picazo, Tamara Del Rio Higueras, Ariadna Martín Balcells, Olga Sánchez- Maroto Carrizo, Angelica Valderrama Rodríguez, Joan Genescà Ferrer, Paula Isabel Roldan Caballero
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 315150
Reference: PT20/00078
Duration: 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024

ACTUALIZACIÓN DE EQUIPAMIENTOS DE ALTA TECNOLOGIA PARA LA PLATAFORMA DE IMAGEN PRECLINICA. ADQUISICION DE UN EQUIPO DE ULTRASONIDOS DE INVESTIGACION PRECLINICA

IP: Inmaculada Fuentes Camps
Collaborators: Anna Meseguer Navarro, Antonio Rodríguez Sinovas, Francesc Bosch Albareda, Victor Franco Puntes, José Raul Herance Camacho, Jordi Giralt López de Sagred, Màrius Aguirre Canyadell, Xavier Serres Créixams, Simon Schwartz Navarro, Joaquim Mateo Valderrama, Mario Marotta Baleriola, Anna Rosell Novel, Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 108390
Reference: EQC2019-006322-P
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2020

Ministerio de Ciencia

Estudio de enfermedades vasculares hepáticas

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 82400
Reference: FI19/00330
Duration: 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2023

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