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All the latest news and information on the main advances in research, institutional milestones, teaching and management. Find out what happens at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute!

The initiative, coordinated by Dr. Pablo Velasco and Dr. Jose Luis Fuster, aims to bring innovation closer to patients and promote research projects in this disease.

This initiative of the ”la Caixa” Foundation offers the selected entrepreneurial scientists financial support and support through individual mentoring and training.

The project aims to test the HIPRA vaccine against COVID-19 in children (including adolescents) and immunocompromised people.

The European network EUPertStrain celebrates its annual meeting, focused on the study of the evolution of Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium responsible for this disease that can be very serious in children under one year.

The ability to be able to diagnose and differentiate both diseases as early as possible is fundamental to impact and stop the evolution of the disease before irreversible damage occurs.

The meeting, in which Dr. Pere Soler participated, showed the results of the first year with the description of new genetic defects associated with severe forms of COVID-19 and novelties in the detection of autoantibodies against interferons.

The members of the commission advise VHIR on financial investments selflessly.

The book is the culmination of the last ten years of research by Dr Gregori, Dr Quer and Dr Rodríguez-Frías in the Viral Hepatitis laboratory

More than 400 students have completed this program to train in research aimed at finding solutions to people's health problems.

The study shows that blocking the KLRG1 receptor helps to recover the activity of the natural killer cells of the immune system and reactivate the virus reservoir to fight infection.

On World Cancer Research Day, we highlight the oncology research model of the Vall d'Hebron Campus that allows laboratory results to be transferred as quickly as possible to clinical practice.

The Clinical and Translational Bioinformatics Group at VHIR has been responsible for the computational analysis of two international genetic studies led by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The platform offers health workers the latest information on infectious and tropical diseases and also serves as a training tool.

This is a RACECAT secondary study published in JAMA Neurology that focuses on intracerebral haemorrhages.

The ClinPrior algorithm achieved a positive diagnosis rate of 70% in two minority diseases of neurodegenerative origin, which represents double the number of cases that are diagnosed with current tools.

The new drug improves core symptoms of depression in just three days

This new method improves and streamlines drug development processes

The study, conducted in more than 770 people, concludes that atogepant reduces the frequency of migraine attacks and the need to take medication.

Complemented with the analysis of genetic variants, the work led by Vall d'Hebron establishes the basis for using gene expression as a potential biomarker of risk of developing the disorder.

This initiative has several collaborative projects with the aim of increasing knowledge about rare blood diseases and improving patient care.

The results show that tobacco affects the expression of some genes related to the development of this type of headache.

The work improves accuracy in predicting complications at the boundary between the instrumented spine area and the area that is left free when spinal deformity corrective surgery is performed.

The Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) makes its own and open call for a doctoral fellowship programme devoted to attracting early-stage researchers with a special interest in biomedical research who wish to carry out doctoral studies at VHIR

The IMM-CARE project has been presented at an institutional event in Lisbon.