The "http://ics30anys30veus.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/vint-anys-de-recerca-al-servei-de-les-persones/" blog of the Institut Català de la Salut published on Friday a report about VHIR’s history, coinciding with the 20th anniversary: “Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR) celebrates this year a special anniversary: twenty years ago was founded the Fundació per la Recerca i la Docència Vall d’Hebron –since 2011 called VHIR–, which has become one of the most important biomedical research institutions of our country. However, many years before its foundation, doctors from Vall d’Hebron University Hospital were already investigating. It is the case of the Department of Internal Medicine that in 1970 began to investigate despite the few resources available. Since that year, many initiatives started to rise inside the hospital and eventually converged in a single project.In that time, the main research activity was concentrated in the laboratory of Dr. Simó Schwartz’s father, who created the Center for Biomedical Research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (CIBBIM) in 1995. Dr. Schwartz also headed the Santiago Grisolía Metabolic Research Unit, founded in 1992. Another laboratory that played an important role in the foundation of the Institute was the Unit in Experimental Cardiology, located at the manager’s garage of the Ciutat Sanitària. The creation of the foundation was very welcome among the professionals of the hospital. Before 1994, many projects received regular funding from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS), the Spanish National Plan and the European Comission. When the Foundation was born, the groups quickly transferred their calls and projects to the new entity, which demonstrated their confidence in the amazing project that had just started".