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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

Investigación traslacional en complicaciones de la cirrosis: del modelo experimental a la clínica y viceversa

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Immaculada Raurell Saborit, Macarena Simon-Talero Horga, Mònica Pons Delgado
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 130075
Reference: PI15/00066
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 31/10/2019

Mecanismes de neuromodulació a la hipertensió portal: noves possibilitats terapèutiques en la cirrosi hepàtica

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 46800
Reference: PRED-VHIR-2015-06
Duration: 09/02/2016 - 08/02/2018

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

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Meritxell Ventura Cots, Macarena Simon-Talero Horga
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 242000
Reference: ICI14/00352
Duration: 01/01/2015 - 30/06/2019

Estudio cirrosis hepática

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Macarena Simon-Talero Horga
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 53732
Reference: CM14/00220
Duration: 06/04/2015 - 05/04/2017

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