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Blood vessels development depends on the maturation state of the pericytes that enclose them
Many diseases are associated with a dysregulation in blood vessel formation. Now an IDIBELL group has defined a model of pericyte maturation during vessel formation and has developed tools to study them, which could help to decipher their contribution to these diseases.
Artificial intelligence applied to clinical oncology
ModGraProDep is an innovative system that, through artificial intelligence and the design of probabilistic models, improves the prediction of survival indicators in breast cancer patients. This study, published in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, has been led by Ramon Clèries, professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine and Health […]
The P-CMR[C] launches its website
The Program for advancing the Clinical Translation of Regenerative Medicine of Catalonia (P-CMR[C]), which aims to group research on stem cells in Catalonia, now has its own space in internet.
Laura Valle has received the CIBERONC 2020 award
The researcher Laura Valle has been awarded the CIBERONC 2020 award at the IV Annual CIBERONC Meeting held at the National School of Health of the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid. Laura Valle, a principal investigator in the IDIBELL hereditary cancer group and CIBERONC researcher, has received the Best CIBERONC 2020 Researcher Award. The […]
Positive Psychotherapy in patients who have completed cancer treatment
The new therapy, designed by the team of psychooncologist Cristian Ochoa, reduces long-term emotional distress and stress symptoms.
Discovery of a new mechanism of homeostatic plasticity in autaptic neural connections
A group from IDIBELL and UB has demonstrated that neurons can detect a decrease in the autaptic synapse, those established with themselves, and recover the consequent fall of neurotransmission by forming and enhancing new connections.
Bellvitge led the first post-coronavirus clinical trial for the treatment of patients with lung sequelae
The Fibro-Covid clinical trial will evaluate the ability of pirfenidone to prevent the establishment of irreversible and progressive fibrotic lesions in the lungs after overcoming Covid-19 pneumonia.
A web app with IDIBELL participation allows following the global evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic
A team of researchers developed a tool that integrates all epidemiological indicators and compares the evolution between countries.
The HUB-ICO-IDIBELL Biobank responds to the pandemic and creates a collection of COVID-19 samples for research
THE ICO-HUB-IDIBELL Biobank has created a collection of sera, plasma, DNA and RNA samples from patients confirmed by SARS-CoV-2 to make available to the scientific community