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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The clinical and basic research activity of the Ophthalmology Research Group is dedicated to finding new treatments for blindness through the development of new therapies for macular and retinal degenerative diseases, as well as for retinal vascular diseases (diabetic retinopathy and retinal vascular occlusions). Our group consists of core researchers and clinical researchers, so there is a clear clinical translation of the ongoing research in the research group.
We have a research program for the development of new therapeutic strategies based on:
In the clinical part, the research group bases its activity on clinical trials to develop new treatments for retinal diseases as well as on the ophthalmic involvement of systemic treatments, an example is the phase II trial to test mesenchymal cells (MSV) intravitreal in non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), the RECOGNISED study or the PULSAR study with aflibercept.
PMID: 30808833 Journal: OPHTHALMOLOGICA Year: 2019 Reference: Ophthalmologica. 2019;242(1):38-48. doi: 10.1159/000495621. Epub 2019 Mar 22. Impact factor: 1.781 Publication type: Paper in international publication Authors: Pastor-Idoate, Salvador, Gomez-Resa, Maria, Karam, Sarah, Copete, Sergio, Kyriakou, Danai, Garcia-Arumi Fuste, Claudia, Pastora, Natalia, Nadal, Jeroni, Garcia-Arumi, Jose et al. DOI: 10.1159/000495621
PMID: 30714336 Journal: ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA Year: 2019 Reference: Acta Ophthalmol. 2019 Nov;97(7):e952-e961. doi: 10.1111/aos.14023. Epub 2019 Feb 3. Impact factor: 3.153 Publication type: Paper in international publication Authors: Munoz, Marcos, Anton, Alfonso, Castany, Marta, Gil, Alfonso, Martinez, Alberto, Munoz-Negrete, Francisco J, Urcelay, Jose, Moreno-Montanes, Javier et al. DOI: 10.1111/aos.14023
PMID: 30389750 Journal: DIABETES Year: 2019 Reference: Diabetes. 2019 Feb;68(2):457-463. doi: 10.2337/db18-0682. Epub 2018 Nov 2. Impact factor: 7.199 Publication type: Paper in international publication Authors: Simo, Rafael, Hernandez, Cristina, Porta, Massimo, Bandello, Francesco, Grauslund, Jakob, Harding, Simon P, Aldington, Stephen J, Egan, Catherine, Frydkjaer-Olsen, Ulrik, Garcia-Arumi, Jose et al. DOI: 10.2337/db18-0682
PMID: 30608950 Journal: PLoS One Year: 2019 Reference: PLoS One. 2019 Jan 4;14(1):e0209997. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209997. eCollection 2019. Impact factor: 2.776 Publication type: Paper in international publication Authors: Zarranz-Ventura, Javier, Sala-Puigdollers, Anna, Velazquez-Villoria, Daniel, Figueras-Roca, Marc, Copete, Sergio, Distefano, Laura, Boixadera, Anna, Garcia-Arumi, Jose, Adan, Alfredo et al. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209997
On January 24, a session was held to explain what these three-dimensional models are and what advantages they have, as well as to review some of their applications in research.
Els estudis avançaran en els camps de les malalties digestives, el VIH, la fatiga crònica, les patologies cardíaques, l’hepatitis, la diabetis i l’oftalmologia.
Dr. José García Arumi and Dr. Anna Duarri from the Ophthalmology research group at Vall Hebron Recerca lead the project.
