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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

Spanish Clinical Research Network (SCReN)

IP: Inmaculada Fuentes Camps
Collaborators: Antonio Moreno Galdó, Spanish Clinical Research Network (SCReN), Ariadna Martín Balcells, Olga Sánchez- Maroto Carrizo, Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 319550
Reference: PT17/0017/0030
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020

LIVERHOPE: SIMVASTATIN AND RIFAXIMIN AS NEW THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS

IP: -
Collaborators: Ester Palacio Gutierrez, Olga Sánchez- Maroto Carrizo, Amaia Latasa Arrazubi, Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 409557
Reference: LIVERHOPE_H2020RTD2016
Duration: 01/01/2017 - 28/02/2023

Sol·licitud d'intensificació per a la dedicació en el projecte "Investigación traslacional en complicaciones de la cirrosis: del modelo experimental a la clínica y viceversa" (PI15/00066).

IP: -
Collaborators: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 18000
Reference: INT16/00109
Duration: 31/01/2017 - 31/12/2017

Efectos de la administración de albúmina en pacientes cirròticos con encefalopatia hepática

IP: -
Collaborators: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 30000
Reference: INT15/00040
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2016

Related news

The grants support projects led by Drs. María José Buzón, María Buti, Elena Élez, and Maria Vieito.

The grants, amounting to more than €533,000 for VHIR, will allow clinical duties to be partially released over three years to promote strategic research projects in obesity, respiratory diseases, aortic pathology and metabolic fatty liver disease.

Funding has been obtained for 43 projects under the calls for Health R&D&I Projects, Health Technology Development, and Independent Clinical Research

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