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.
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The Microbiome Research’s group seeks to investigate the role of the microbiota in health and disease. Its secondary objectives include developing molecular as well as bioinformatics tools to characterize the microbiome structure and function, discovering micro-biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis, investigating how fecal microbiota transplantation could be used as a therapeutic strategy, and evaluating the impact of diet on the gut microbial ecosystem The Microbiome Lab is a multidisciplinary team, composed of molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, and physicians. The group tackles several clinical fields including inflammatory bowel diseases, diabetes, liver diseases, pre-term birth, and critical illness.
The results show that diet induces changes in the gut microbiota that differ between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and that influence levels of intestinal inflammation.
The study, involving a thousand participants from different regions of Spain, shows that diet influences the diversity and composition of the microbiota and, therefore, health.
The study also linked improved microbiota diversity to better liver function.
Check the current rates of the services offered by the Microbiome Research group
We are looking for approximately 1,000 volunteers who will have to answer a very simple questionnaire about their eating habits and provide a stool sample, 3 times over the course of a year.
