Sport helps health and also research. One example was the 37th "http://www.zurichmaratobarcelona.com/" Zurich Barcelona Marathon held on Sunday. Over 42 km race, that Dr. Cristina Solé and a group of parents of the "https://ampavirolai.wordpress.com/" AMPA of the Virolai School proposed achieve in order to raise money for research.Dr. Cristina Solé, who investigates about Lupus Disease in the Systemic Diseases research group of Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), raised 1,600 Euros that will be invested in research about this serious disease of the immune system. Specifically, the money will serve to fund some research projects of the internal medicine research line, in Lupus, at VHIR, a group led by Dr. Jose Ordi-Ros which has the collaboration of the "http://funcalup.org/" Catalan Lupus Foundation and the "http://www.noel.es/ca/responsabilitat-social/fundacio-a-bosch/" A. Bosch Foundation. This research group works hard to find ways to treat this disease, that only in Catalonia, is affecting more than 6,000 people.With a similar purpose, a group of parents of the AMPA of the Escola Virolai also ran this marathon, but in this case, with the aim of raising funds for "http://www.migranodearena.org/es/reto/5668/610-ben-dhora-ampa-escola-virolai/" research in pediatric liver transplants. They raised 2,410 Euros, long surpassing the figure of 1,200 Euros that was proposed in the beginning.In both cases the challenge was a success: they all could finish the marathon and raise the money they had purposed. We congratulate them for the effort and their altruism!