About the VHIR
Here at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) we promote biomedical research, innovation and teaching. Over 1,800 people are seeking to understand diseases today so the treatment can be improved tomorrow.
Research
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The aim of our group is to investigate the use of medicines and evaluate its benefit/risk relationship in usual clinical practice. Our group coordinates the Catalan centre of the Spanish System of Pharmacovigilance. Research activities on pharmacology and pharmacoepidemiology are coupled with undergraduate teaching at the Autonomous University of Barcelona Medical School, training of specialists in clinical pharmacology, and continuous education of health professionals on therapeutics.
The group is a Special Group of Research recognized by AGAUR GenCat. It is a partner of “The European Consortium “EU PE&PV Network” (European Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance Network)” and it is part of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP). It gives institutional support to the Clinical Research Ethical Committee of the University hospital Vall d’Hebron (UHVH), the Drug and Pharmacotherapeutic Committee of the UHVH, and also to the Drug and Pharmacotherapeutic Committee of the Institut Català de la Salut.
In this line of research, studies of the use of drugs in real clinical practice are mainly carried out, such as monitoring the use of outpatient hospital drugs and medicines evaluated for their special conditions of use (e.g. off-label and compassionate use).
In addition, research is being carried out into the use of medicines within a European consortium led by Utrecht University EU PE&PV, and at the request of the European Medicines Agency (e.g. use of retinoids in women of childbearing age).
IP: Immaculada Danes Carreras, Mònica Sabaté Gallego
Primarily focused on the analysis of acute and chronic postoperative pain and neuropathic pain.
IP: Francisco Javier Medel Rebollo
Analysis of the spontaneous reported adverse drug reactions at the Hospital, in order to improve knowledge of the safety profile of new commercialized drugs and to be able to estimate the incidence of their adverse drug reactions. Analysis of the drug use in the real world setting in order to improve the prevention of adverse drug reactions.
IP: Maria Antònia Agustí Escasany, Cristina Aguilera Martin
In collaboration with three hospitals of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona the group performs two studies to identify hospital admissions due to acute renal failure and hospital-acquired acute renal failure related to rennin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and other drugs with in-hospital use. The aim is to estimate the incidence rate and the severity, to describe the clinic characteristics and clinical course, the drugs involved, other associated risk factors, the length of the hospital stay, and the economical impact.
IP: Maria Antònia Agustí Escasany
IP: - Collaborators: - Funding agency: Fundación Mutual Médica Funding: 25000 Reference: FMM/BMM/2022/ANDERSSEN Duration: 25/11/2022 - 25/11/2024
IP: Maria Antònia Agustí Escasany Collaborators: Ángeles Mesas Idáñez, Xavier Vidal Guitart, María Gloria Cereza García, Cristina Aguilera Martin, Maria Elena Ballarin Alins, Judit Riera Arnau, Immaculada Danes Carreras, Carla Sans Pola, Francisco Javier Medel Rebollo, Eulàlia Pérez Esquirol, Eduard Diogène Fadini, Mònica Sabaté Gallego, Montse Bosch Ferrer, Lourdes Vendrell Bosch, Lina Fernanda Camacho Arteaga Funding agency: AGAUR no fer servir-correcte 4301-37 Funding: 0.01 Reference: 2021 SGR 00848 Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
IP: Cristina Aguilera Martin Collaborators: - Funding agency: Generalitat de Catalunya - Departament de Salut Funding: 5520 Reference: SLT021/21/000068 Duration: 01/06/2022 - 31/12/2024
IP: Victòria Cardona Dahl Collaborators: Xavier Vidal Guitart, Maria Antònia Agustí Escasany, Gustavo Jorge Molina Molina, Laura Gomez Ganda Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 30250 Reference: PI19/01656 Duration: 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2023
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PhD student: Carolina Iglesias Lòpez Director/s: Maria Antònia Agustí Escasany, Antoni Vallano Ferraz University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Year: 2023
PhD student: Lina Fernanda Camacho Arteaga, Lina Fernanda Camacho Arteaga Director/s: Mònica Sabaté Gallego, Xavier Vidal Guitart University: Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona Year: 2022
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