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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

Estudio longitudinal de la expresión génica diferencial de la alteración vascular esplácnica en el modelo experimental de hipertensión portal de rata. Papel de los mecanismos de angiogénesis

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Antonio González Fernández, Estudio longitudinal de la expresión génica diferencial de la alteración vascular esplácnica en el modelo experimental de hipert
Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 83490
Reference: SAF2006-03714
Duration: 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2009

Ministerio de Ciencia

Utilización de la tecnología de alto rendimiento de microchips de DNA en ell estudio de la fisiopatología de la alteración vascular arterial de la hipertensión portal experimental

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 13200
Reference: PRED/IR-HUVH/29/2004
Duration: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2008

Virus de l´hepatitis C com factor de risc per desenvolupar una diabetes mellitus: estudi dels mecanismes etiopatogènics

IP: Cristina Hernández Pascual
Collaborators: Rafael Simó Canonge, Juan Ignacio Esteban Mur, Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Funding: 41036.17
Reference: TV3/992610
Duration: 01/01/2000 - 31/12/2002

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