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.
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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.
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At Diagnostic Nanotools, we work to ameliorate the diagnosis of diseases. On the one hand, we produce rapid assays and electrochemical biosensors, with a special emphasis on point-of-care diagnosis of infectious diseases.
In this context, we develop single-step immunoassays, classical biosensors (in which a sensor is modified with bioreceptors for the specific detection of the analyte of interest) and magneto-biosensors (in which the assay is performed on magnetic particles). We explore the implementation of nanomaterials to obtain improved transducers and as signal amplifiers to generate faster and more sensitive biosensors. We also seek to automate the tests using extremely simple and economical paper microfluidics. On the other hand, we are developing "synthrocytes," a synthetic reagent that could replace animal erythrocytes in the hemagglutination assays used currently for the global surveillance of influenza viruses and in the control of vaccine production.
IP: Eva Baldrich Rubio Collaborators: Judit Prat Trunas, Cristina Andrés Vergés, Briza Pérez López Funding agency: AGAUR no fer servir-correcte 4301-37 Funding: 0.01 Reference: 2021 SGR 00617 Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
IP: Eva Baldrich Rubio Collaborators: Judit Prat Trunas, Miriam Izquierdo Sans Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 89900 Reference: IFI22/00017 Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026
IP: Eva Baldrich Rubio Collaborators: Romina Dieli Crimi, Mónica Martínez Gallo, Andres Antón Pagarolas, Tomàs Pumarola Suñé, Erica de la Serna Botello, Ana Sánchez Cano, Cristina Andrés Vergés, Kevin Ricardo Arias Alpizar Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 104500 Reference: DTS20/00093 Duration: 01/01/2021 - 30/06/2023
IP: Eva Baldrich Rubio Collaborators: Judit Prat Trunas Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN Funding: 73810 Reference: PID2020-118904RB-C22 Duration: 01/09/2021 - 30/08/2024
Ana Sánchez és investigadora predoctoral del grup Diagnostic Nanotools del VHIR i la seva tesi es centra en l’ús de cèl·lules sintètiques per millorar el control de pandèmies de grip.
With this grant the project Synthetic cells to improve the control of viral infections will receive support to accelerate its arrival to society.
