Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) It is a research center aimed at improving the health problems of people. To achieve this, it is necessary to carry out basic and clinical high-level research.

IDIBELL has its own researchers and integrates the research carried out at the University Hospital of Bellvitge, the Hospital de Viladecans (both of the Catalan Institute of Health), the Catalan Institute of Oncology at the University of Barcelona, Hospitalet and the University of Barcelona at the Campus of Bellvitge.

The more than a thousand IDIBELL researchers are organized in four thematic areas –cancer, neuroscience, translational medicine and regenerative medicine–, nine research programs and 73 groups.