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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The Rheumatology Research Group (GRR) is focused on translational research in immunity-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDA), mainly in the area of rheumatology. The GRR is a multidisciplinary group made up of clinical specialists, biologists, bioinformaticians and laboratory technicians. The different research lines of the GRR emphasize the use of high-performance technologies for the study at the cellular and molecular level of the immununopathology of IMIDA, mainly chronic inflammatory arthritis and autoimmune systemic diseases.
At the clinical level, we have developed lines of research in very diverse areas of rheumatology, including chronic inflammatory arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies), systemic autoimmune diseases (lupus, myositis, Sjögren's syndrome), the study of musculoskeletal imaging, pediatric rheumatology (juvenile idiopathic arthritis, autoimmune systemic diseases, autoinflammatory syndromes), central sensitization syndromes and the study of bone metabolism. One of the main objectives of the GRR is the coordination of basic and clinical research to accelerate the transfer of knowledge to clinical practice and thus improve the quality of life of patients.
IP: Julia Torguet Carbonell Collaborators: - Funding agency: Stat Catalana Reumatologia – ACMSCB Funding: 6000 Reference: SOC.CAT.REUMA/BEQUES/2025/TORGUET Duration: 30/06/2025 - 29/06/2027
IP: Joan Joseph Munné Collaborators: Joana Ramis Garcia, Claudia Broto Cortes, Beatriz Pacín Ruiz Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 102500 Reference: PI24/00576 Duration: 01/01/2025 - 31/12/2027
IP: Maria Francesca Cortese Collaborators: Maria Jose Herrero Mata, Elena Vargas Accarino, Maria Buti Ferret, Ariadna Rando Segura, Jordi Llaneras Artigues, Adriana Palom Agusti, Francesc Rudilla Salvador, David Tabernero Caellas, Beatriz Pacín Ruiz Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 220000 Reference: PI23/01065 Duration: 01/01/2024 - 30/06/2028
IP: Maria America Lopez Lasanta Collaborators: Juan Minguell Moñart, Raul Tortosa Mendez, Joan Pijoan Bueno, Andrea Pluma Sanjurjo, Luis Coronel Tarancon, Maria Socorro Bescós Atin Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 276250 Reference: PI23/01372 Duration: 01/01/2024 - 30/06/2028
The new therapeutic strategy aims at maintaining the efficacy of thalidomide while avoiding its main systemic adverse effects.
The event, held as part of World Lupus Day, incorporated the perspective of people living with the disease to address the challenges associated with lupus.
The global biopharmaceutical company UCB has acquired the data and clinical knowledge business of IMIDomics, a spin-off of the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR).
