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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

TARGETED BIODEGRADABLE NANOPARTICLES OF SIMVASTATIN AS NEW THERAPEUTIC TOOL FOR CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Miriam Izquierdo Sans
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 49100
Reference: 2019 FI_B 00395
Duration: 01/06/2019 - 31/10/2022

Grup de recerca en Malalties Hepàtiques

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding: 61192
Reference: 2017SGR0374
Duration: 01/01/2017 - 30/09/2021

Sol·licitud Juan Rodés.

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Macarena Simon-Talero Horga
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 180000
Reference: JR17/00029
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 24/07/2022

Spanish Clinical Research Network (SCReN)

IP: Inmaculada Fuentes Camps
Collaborators: Antonio Moreno Galdó, Tamara Del Rio Higueras, Ariadna Martín Balcells, Olga Sánchez- Maroto Carrizo, Angelica Valderrama Rodríguez, Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 319550
Reference: PT17/0017/0030
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020

Related news

Using computed tomography (CT), with or without contrast, it is possible to perform an accurate and safe detection of the disease without the need for biopsies and avoiding the limitations of other non-invasive diagnostic tools.

Preliminary study results confirm that the drug resmetirom reduces the presence of fat, inflammation, cell damage and fibrosis in the liver.

The European project, in which Vall d'Hebron participates, will favor personalized diagnosis and innovative therapeutic strategies in patients with the disease.

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