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.
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Until 2017, this group was constituted as a consolidated group in the VHIR under the name of "Digestive Transplants" with a consolidated research trajectory. Our group has two large areas of research: liver transplantation, which is cross-sectional adult-pediatric and; on the other hand, research, specifically in the fields of liver resections, liver cancer (primary or metastatic), biliary cancer, pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis. Both areas have very innovative aspects, with translational objectives, including artificial intelligence, transcriptomics and molecular biology.
The general objective of the liver transplant research area is to improve the preservation of liver grafts, as well as increase the survival of grafts and transplant patients. The research area related to cancer or acute pancreatitis has as a general objective to improve the management and treatment of patients with pancreatitis, as well as to improve the diagnosis and survival of cancer patients.
L'objectiu de minimitzar el risc de insuficiència hepàtica post-resecció.
IP: Ernest Hidalgo Llompart, Mireia Caralt Barba
Projecte que avalua la cirurgia mínimament invasiva en la resecció de tumors en pacients amb hipertensió portal clínicament significativa.
IP: Ramon Charco Torra, Concepción Gomez Gavara
IP: Elizabeth Pando Rau, Joaquin Balsells Valls
En col·laboració con grup CIBEREHD-Dra. Macarena Simon.
IP: Joaquin Balsells Valls Collaborators: Gianluca Pellino Funding agency: Asociación Española de Cirujanos Funding: 5000 Reference: AEC/BECA/2022/IBD/FERTILITY Duration: 18/10/2022 - 19/10/2024
IP: Concepción Gomez Gavara Collaborators: Ramon Charco Torra, Ernest Hidalgo Llompart Funding agency: AGAUR no fer servir-correcte 4301-37 Funding: 0.01 Reference: 2021 SGR 01236 Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
IP: Chaysavanh Manichanh Collaborators: Itxarone Izaskun Bilbao Aguirre, Zaida Soler Luque, Jordi Barquinero Mañez, Oscar Segarra Canton, Gerard Serrano Gomez, Cristina Dopazo Taboada, Rocío Piñera Moreno, Zixuan Xie Funding agency: AGAUR no fer servir-correcte 4301-37 Funding: 40000 Reference: 2021 SGR 00459 Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
IP: Alberto Sandiumenge Camps Collaborators: Ernest Hidalgo Llompart, Jesús Quintero Bernabeu Funding agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN Funding: 124939 Reference: CPP2021-008633 Duration: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2025
PhD student: Juan Andres Echeverri Cifuentes Director/s: Ramon Charco Torra, Gonzalo Sapisochin Cantis University: Year: 2021
Over the course of two days, experts presented the latest advances in vectors, different gene modification techniques and their transfer to clinical practice.
Vall d'Hebron professionals presented four posters, two oral communications and two lectures by Dr. Dopazo and Dr. Gomez-Gavara.
The donation will go towards two studies aimed at improving the quality of life of paediatric liver transplant patients.
