The Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Vall d'Hebron Institut of Oncology (VHIO), and the Centre for Multiple Sclerosis of Catalonia (Cemcat) have formalized in an act in front of 400 people in the educational Pavilion of the hospital the start of the project Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus. The Campus is a new way of working and doing, where research, teaching and clinical practice walk together, in the same direction, to join efforts and grow, to be more useful, more productive and more effective. The four institutions consider that knowledge is essential and must be shared as orderly as possible. In the presentation, the Minister of health, Toni Comín, has ensured that the project "Campus is already a network", and Vall d'Hebron, "the flagship" of the Catalan health.One of the main events of the 60th anniversary of the Hospital Vall d'Hebron preceded the presentation of the new Campus, the interview that the meteorologist of TV3 and science broadcaster, Tomás Molina, has made to the co-owner and sommelier of the Celler de Can Roca, Josep Roca. Two personalities who share the recipe for the new project of the Hospital, VHIR, VHIO and Cemcat, achieve excellence and world leadership through the sum of synergies and teamwork in the service of the people.Josep Roca has reviewed the past, the present and the future of his career in the Celler de Can Roca, as well as parallels between the world of cooking and health, in particular of research. Campus ProjectThe Campus project began to take form a year ago, with the aim of strengthening synergies and partnerships between organizations that are independent from each other. Twelve months later and in the framework of the 60th anniversary, the proposal has been in the hands of Dr. Vicenç Martínez-Ibáñez, Director of the hospital, Dr. Ana Ochoa, Healthcare Director, Dr. Joan Comella, director of VHIR, Dr. Josep Tabernero, director of VHIO, and Dr. Xavier Montalbán, director of the Cemcat.Dr. Martinez-Ibáñez has introduced the Campus as an opportunity to improve care to the patient, since he assures, "results from the sum of four leading institutions in attendance, research, oncology and multiple sclerosis will move not only to the patients of our hospital, but also society as a whole".With the Campus, patients can benefit from the excellence in care, research, teaching, and innovation that the four institutions already had separately, and that now will add to place Vall d'Hebron among the best hospital complexes around the world. For Dr. Comella, this will serve to attract national and international talent. "We want the best residents, students and researchers to come to us because we have a large base of pre-existing talent that we will be able to expose more as a Campus," commented the director of VHIR.Vall d'Hebron follows the footsteps of other health institutions of prestige as the Karolinska Institute and Harvard, who long ago decided to unify efforts to enhance and optimize their resources. In this sense, Dr. Xavier Montalbán has explained how it will be easier to attract funding now: "The Campus makes us much more demanding and attractive, because when we are going to ask for funding you know that behind the Cemcat there is a hospital and a few research centres that are benchmarks for care, research and clinical trials".At this time, more than 2,000 patients participate in clinical trials being carried out in the Vall d'Hebron Campus, which is the Spanish centre chosen most by the pharmaceutical industry. Companies such as Pfizer, which has only 17 hospitals around the world to test their drugs, have chosen Vall d'Hebron by its experience in this field.According to Dr. Tabernero, "thanks to the research and the agreements with the industry, our patients can benefit from drugs that are not yet registered and that will take many years to hit the market". VHIO's director also explained that it has recently signed an agreement with Roche Diagnostics, which has been able to see the potential of the four institutions that make up the Campus.The next step of the Campus is now to educate professionals for the new project and encourage them to participate in it. "We know there is still clinical services that do not investigate or innovate, and that is why we are devoting to explain the possibilities of improving the patient's care," said Dr. Ochoa. The Healthcare Director aims to exploit all the research capacity that the hospital has.In addition to meetings with all the hospital, the next action of the Campus will be inaugurating a new animal facility that will be shared by the four institutions and will strengthen the current one.