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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Femtech is a spin-off of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and is part of the accelerator BCN Health Booster of the Barcelona Science Park

The end result of the initiative will be a platform that will flag risk factors and predict potential patient complications

YSOTOPE, a DeepTech start-up with the mission to improve the use of immunotherapies through medical imaging, became part of the spin-off network of VHIR and successfully closed its first investment round of €150,000 with Biozell Ventures.

Among the genes described, there are some related to digestive system functions, which reinforces the biological entity of irritable bowel syndrome as a digestive disease.

L’objectiu d’aquesta sessió va ser posar de manifest les necessitats i perspectives des del punt de vista de diferents àmbits implicats en els assaigs clínics: la recerca, les entitats reguladores i la indústria farmacèutica.

On International Clinical Trials Day, we highlight the increase in VHIR clinical research over the last year.

DIAMOND is the first national network of molecular medical imaging that integrates the main 15 leading research groups in different aspects of the field of molecular imaging in pathologies of great impact on society and the health system.

Thanks to the donation, the Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders group at VHIR is doing research to explore the use of liquid biopsy for the prediction of the evolution of patients with this rare disease.

The research, which is part of the CRESCER project in which Vall d'Hebron participates, has 1423 pregnant women among whom two different interventions will be tested.

This is the result of a study led by the IISPV, the University Hospital Pere Mata Institute and the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR).

Dr. Lucas Moreno is the first author of the international work that presents a series of considerations for early phase studies with the aim of accelerating the arrival of new therapies to patients with childhood cancer.

The start-up Tesai Care works in developing Heecap, a non-invasive electrostimulation system to avoid atrophy to the muscles of respiration in patients on mechanical ventilation in ICUs.

A study, in which Vall d'Hebron has participated, has analysed all the interventions of this type carried out between 2006 and 2020.

The investment will enable D-Sight to progress with the first phase of clinical validation of their drug for early-stage diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

The project evaluates the feasibility of implementing LOLA, an AI-based virtual medical assistant with conversational technology that provides personalized tracking to patients suffering from heart failure.