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Visit by the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, to the work on the new research building for the VHIR Board of Trustees meeting

The Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, chaired the meeting of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Board of Trustees, the first of 2023.

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Relevant projects in pediatric hematology and oncology at Vall d'Hebron are presented at the Iberian congress of the specialty

The presentations include the one given by Dr. María Pérez Torres, who received the award for the best oral communication for a project on the use of mesenchymal cells to reduce complications after hematopoietic progenitor transplantation.

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Vall d'Hebron receives a €20,000 donation from ANiNATH to support research in paediatric liver transplantation

The donation will go towards two studies aimed at improving the quality of life of paediatric liver transplant patients.

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Vall d'Hebron and Hospital Nossa Senhora da Paz in Angola organize the X Scientific Days on endemic infections and malnutrition

Members of the Infectious Diseases research group and the VHIR Management participated in the sessions and visited the areas where the CRESCER and FUTURO projects are developed.

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Defensa de tesi 'Integration of fungal and bacterial microbiome sequencing data'

Doctoranda: Zixuan Xie, Recerca en Microbioma (VHIR) Directora: Dra. Chaysavanh Manichanh Tutor: Dr. Victor Vargas Blasco

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Vall d'Hebron Talks by VHIR 'Persister Cell Biology and Cancer Cell Vulnerabilities'

Speaker: Dr. Oskar Marín, Institut German Trias i Pujol (IGTP) During my career, I have developed a strong interest to understand the cancer cell plasticity and the underlying transcriptional mechanisms. The combination of exhaustive

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Defensa de tesi 'Aplicació adaptada de la NGS per millorar la caracterització genètica dels pacients de complex esclerosi tuberosa i atròfia muscular espinal'

Doctoranda: Laura Blasco Pérez, Medicina genètica VHIR Directors: Dra.  Elena García Arumí i Dr. Eduardo F Tizzano Tutor: Dr. Francisco Rodríguez Frias

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II Jornada Parkinson Vall d'Hebron: "Més enllà de les teràpies dopaminèrgiques en la malaltia de Parkinson"

15:30-15:40 h Benvinguda  15:40 h Abordatge de la malaltia més enllà de la dopamina  Dr. Jorge Hern

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Dr. Rafael Simó receives the Eva Kohner Award for his international career in diabetic retinopathy research

Dr. Simó has also recently pronounced the lecture of admission as a new member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia.

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Vall d'Hebron Talks 'Parlant de lactància materna: Per què, com, i quant costa recolzar la lactància materna des del sistema de salut?'

Ponent: Dra. Maite Hernández Aguilar, doctora per la Universitat Complutense de Madrid, especialista en pediatria. - Per què recolzar i protegir la lactància materna? La investigació continua augmentant el coneixement sobre la lactància materna. Un fluid viu i vivificant, la producció d

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Vall d'Hebron Talks by VHIR 'Unveiling the impact of intra-tumor heterogeneity (ITH) on treatment response to achieve personalized medicine for endometrial cancer patients'

Speaker: Beatriz Villafranca Magdalena, Biomedical Research in Gynaecology Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR) Mortality in patients with high-risk and recurrent endometrial cancer is high since treatment options are limited, and tumors

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Vall d’Hebron participates in a workshop on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Barcelona

Dr. Juan M Pericàs and Elena Sena, researchers at the Liver Diseases Group at VHIR, analyzed the impact of the socioeconomic status in the disease and the results of the EU-PEARL project on clinical trials.

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7a Jornada d'Obesitat 'Una visió Multidisciplinària'

OBJECTIU: Oferir als professionals de la salut de l’àmbit de l'atenció primària els coneixements necessaris per poder valorar i tractar l’obesitat mòrbida. Reconèixer que l'obesitat és una malaltia crònica, en un canvi continu, recidivant que té una etiologia multifactorial i múltiples con

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Dr. Ricard Ferrer is appointed associate editor at the prestigious journal Intensive Care Medicine

The head of the Shock, Organ Dysfunction and Resuscitation group at VHIR will be part of the team that evaluates the scientific articles received by this journal, the best worldwide dedicated exclusively to intensive care medicine.

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The research in the Tartaglia project aims to improve early diagnosis of prostate cancer through artificial intelligence

Special mention should be made of the VHIR’s participation in this study on World Prostate Cancer Day.

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VHIR Biomedical Research in Melanoma group members awarded at the Spanish Academy of Dermatology congress

Dr. Vicente García-Patos received an outstanding career award and his team: a prize for the best oral communication and a first accessit for the best poster in oncology

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Clinical Implementation on Hyperthermic Oncology in Spain and Europe: Current Status and Future Perspectives"

Informació del workshop: El proper divendres 9 de juny de 2023, se celebrarà a Barcelona un Workshop sobre Hipertèrmia Oncològica titulat “Implementació clínica de la Hipertèrmia Oncològica a Espanya i Europa: situació actual i perspectives de futur”. La ubicació de l'esdeveniment és a l'H

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Defensa de tesi 'Studying Hepatitis B and Hepatitis Delta viruses quasispecies by Next-generation sequencing: Conservation, variability, and interaction'

Doctoranda: Beatriz Pacín Ruiz, Microbiologia Directors: Dr. Francisco Rodriguez Frias  i Dra.  María Francesca Cortese Tutor: Dr. Francisco Rodriguez Frias

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Vall d’Hebron begins the search for volunteers to study the COVID-19 HIPRA vaccine in adolescents

This clinical trial is part of the RBDCOV project to test the vaccine on adolescents aged from 12 to 18.

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Jornada de Tumors Cerebrals

14 .00 Benvinguda 14:05 a 14:30 Obertura de les Jornades: avenços presentats al