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The Adventures of Laura and Joan at IDIBELL
Laura and Joan are the protagonists of the story collection on research published by the Generalitat de Catalunya. At number 12 in the series “Laura and Joan at the service of a great milestone,” the young scientists help IDIBELL researchers, in the Bellvitge University Hospital, in their kidney transplantation research. El story is written by […]
Cancer, debate at Millennium, TV3
Cancer, the emperor of all diseases. With this title the TV3 space Millennium devoted its program on March 16th to cancer. After reviewing the biography of this disease, the host and program director, journalist Ramon Colom, moderated a chat about how they have evolved diagnoses and treatments, at what stage research is and what future […]
The campus of international excellence HUBC promotes the creation of a region of innovation in health
On March 22 it was held in the University of Barcelona (UB) the 3rd Plenary Assembly of HUBC, the campus of international excellence for health of the UB. During session, it was presented the status of the 23 HUBc projects currently underway with a global funding of 15 M €. It was also approved a […]
Pere Joan Cardona: ”If you want to transfer, contact the ‘dark side”’
The history of the vaccine Ruti against the latent tuberculosis infection would be enough to write a book. While Pere Joan Cardona was doing his phD, he made a revolutionary observation about how the tuberculosis bacilli can remain dormant in the lungs of people. At that time, he didn’t dare to make much noise with […]
Step forward in research into new treatments for brain edema
Cerebral edemas are accumulations of fluid into the intra- or extracellular spaces of the brain and it can result from several factors such as stroke or head trauma, among others. Cerebral edema is a serious problem in neurology. While in other organs swelling does not lead to an urgent situation, in the brain it leads […]
IDIBELL hosts the annual meeting of the European Project Coltheres
On March 13th the conference hall of the Hospital Duran i Reynals (ICO) hosted the annual meeting of the European project Coltheres. This consortium involves hospitals and translational research centers in six European countries and aims to encourage clinical trials of personalized therapies in colon cancer. Coltheres will use colon cancers as a ‘test-bed’ to […]
Nadine Martin: ”The great value of cognitive models is that they are easily transferable to the clinical application”
Language impairments have always been the objective of the research of Nadine Martin, director at the Eleanor M Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She began studying the more theoretical aspect of language processing but in recent years has proposed to transfer this knowledge to improve diagnosis and treatment in patients with aphasia. She explained it […]
BRG1 mutations confer resistance to hormones in lung cancer
Retinoic acid (vitamin A) and steroids are hormones found in our body that protect against oxidative stress, reduce inflammation and are involved in cellular differentiation processes. One of the characteristics of tumors is that their cells have lost the ability to differentiate; therefore these hormones have useful properties to prevent cancer. Currently, retinoic acid and […]
Xavier Bosch, Lilly Biomedical Research Award 2012
The researcher Xavier Bosch, head of the group on Viruses and Cancer at IDIBELL and Director of the Research in Cancer Epidemiology program at the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), has been awarded the Lilly Foundation for Biomedical Research award 2012 in the category preclinical research. The Lilly Foundation has highlighted the contribution of Xavier […]