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 group’s basic and clinical research activity, above all, surrounds the fields of inflammation and repair, respiratory insufficiency and tissue hypoxia, and these fields complement one another and are connected through the study of conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary fibrosis, infections, transplants, pulmonary hypertension or sleep-related breathing disorders.
The group has an experimental research laboratory and a clinical research and clinical trial unit. It is made up of professionals from different specialties (pulmonologists, biologists, nurses, laboratory technicians, physiotherapists etc.). This multidisciplinary team provides an added value to the group and guarantees the existence of the critical mass necessary to carry out scientific projects.
Our group is a node that belongs to the CIBERES network (CIBER for respiratory diseases) and also works in collaboration with groups of the highest national and international prestige.
IP: Marc Miravitlles Fernández Collaborators: Gerard Orriols Torras Funding agency: Alpha-1 Foundation Funding: 64695 Reference: ALPHA-1_IN-CYCLE-OPPORTUNITIES_2024 Duration: 25/07/2024 - 30/06/2026
IP: Mª Jesús Cruz Carmona Collaborators: Jaume Ferrer Sancho Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH Funding: 160000 Reference: CRUZ/BOOST/2024 Duration: 15/11/2024 - 14/11/2028
IP: Mª Jesús Cruz Carmona Collaborators: David Espejo Castellanos, Miriam Izquierdo Sans Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 65000 Reference: CM23/00174 Duration: 18/03/2024 - 17/03/2026
IP: Mª Jesús Cruz Carmona Collaborators: MicroRNA expression profiles in asthmatic patients with different disease phenotypes exposed to pollutants. Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 89900 Reference: FI22/00262 Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2027
The families of the professionals had the opportunity to visit the facilities and discover how we work at the institution.
The meeting, the most important event in the field worldwide, took place in Barcelona from 5 to 9 September and featured presentations of more than thirty VHIR studies.
The researcher from the VHIR Pulmonology group aims to continue promoting prevention, research and respiratory health advocacy, while strengthening the international profile of research teams in Spain and Catalonia.
EXIMIOUS (Mapping Exposure-Induced Immune Effects: Connecting the Exposome and the Immunome), un projecte finançat per la Unió Europea que engloba 15 organitzacions de 7 països europeus.
EXIMIOUS té com a objectiu estudiar l’exposoma, és a dir, l’exposició a factors ambientals al llarg de la vida, per entendre la seva relació amb les malalties immunomediades, com ara les malalties autoimmunes o les al·lèrgies. Des del VHIR està liderat per la Dra. M Jesús Cruz i el seu equip de Pneumologia.
