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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

Estabulari

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Immaculada Raurell Saborit
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 99000
Reference: CA10/01489
Duration: 01/01/2011 - 22/04/2014

Papel del sistema nervioso simpático en la génesis y mantenimiento de las alteraciones hemodinámicas (vasodilatación mesentérica) de la hipertensión portal (SIMPATHAL)

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Immaculada Raurell Saborit, Papel del sistema nervioso simpático en la génesis y mantenimiento de las alteraciones hemodinámicas (vasodilatación mesentérica
Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 84700
Reference: SAF2009-08354
Duration: 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2012

Ministerio de Ciencia

Estudio multicéntrico, aleatorizado, doble-ciego, controlado con placebo, sobre la eficacia del tratamiento con beta-bloqueantes para pevenir la descompensación de la cirrosis con hipertensión portal

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: Antonio González Fernández
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 122815
Reference: EC08/00070
Duration: 01/01/2009 - 30/06/2013

Papel del sistema nervioso simpático en la génesis y mantenimiento de las alteraciones hemodinámicas (vasodilatación mesentérica) de la hipertensión portal.

IP: Joan Genescà Ferrer
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 13500
Reference: PRED/IR-HUVH/13/2008
Duration: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2012

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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