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
We are working to understand diseases, to find out how they operate and to create better treatments for patients. Get to know about our groups and their lines of research.
People
People are the centre of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR). This is why we are bound by the principles of freedom of research, gender equality and professional attitudes that HRS4R promotes.
Clinical trials
Our work is not just basic or translational; we are leaders in clinical research. Enter and find about the clinical trials we are conducting and why we are a world reference in this field.
Progress
Our aim is to make the research carried out at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) a driving force for transformation. How? By identifying new channels and solutions for the promotion of people's health and well-being.
Core facilities
We offer specialist support for researchers, internal and external alike, ranging from specific services to preparing complete projects. All this, from a perspective of quality and speed of response.
News
We offer you a gateway for staying up to date on everything going on at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), from the latest news to future solidarity activities and initiatives that we are organising.
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.
The goal of this project is to strengthen the monitoring of benefit-risk of medicines in Europe by developing innovative methods that will enhance the early detection and assessment of adverse drug reaction from different data sources (clinical trials, spontaneous reporting and observational studies). Our group is responsible for working on the use of national drug utilisation data. The specific tasks are to build and update an inventory of data sources on the consumption of the medicines of interest, to evaluate and disseminate methodologies for drug utilisation studies in order to estimate the potential public health impact of adverse drug reactions.
IP: PROTECT (Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcome of Therapeutics by a European ConsorTium, PROTECT (Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcome of Therapeutics by a European ConsorTium
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Funding has been obtained for 43 projects under the calls for Health R&D&I Projects, Health Technology Development, and Independent Clinical Research
The results show the need for continuous monitoring of patients to detect and manage possible adverse effects occurring months and years after treatment.
The creation of hybrid digital-human interaction spaces between avatars and people offers new opportunities for personalized medicine
