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Researchers at IDIBELL-HUB negatively correlate a neuropeptide with executive functions in patients with anorexia
Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the group of Eating Disorders, of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), led by Dr. Fernando Fernández-Aranda, published in Scientific Reports (Nature) a study that negatively correlates the concentration of orexin A (a neuropeptide) with the executive functions in anorexic patients. The study is part of the […]
New solidarity drive to investigate GRINpathies
CEIP Fray Alonso Fernández from the small town of Malpartida de Plasencia (Cáceres), together with the center’s AMPA, has promoted a solidarity activity to contribute to the study of GRINpathies. The educational center organized a “solidarity sandwich” in order to raise funds for research against these diseases, a task carried out in the IDIBELL by […]
New volume of Handbooks of Cancer Prevention (IARC) on screening for Colorectal Cancer with IDIBELL-ICO participation
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published volume 17 of its Handbooks of Cancer Prevention collection, which focuses on the screening of colorectal cancer. The issue has been written by a workgroup of 23 independent experts from 15 countries appointed by the Agency, including Dr. Montse García, IDIBELL-ICO researcher of the Cancer […]
The solidarity of Negreira boosts GRINpathies research at IDIBELL
Last Saturday, May 25th, Negreira, a small town located in Galicia, held the 4th edition of its charity Triathlon. As in previous editions, funds raised by the organization will be entirely devoted to the study of rare diseases. This year, the organization decided to award 50% of the funds to the IDIBELL research group led […]
IDIBELL, re-accredited as a health research institute by the Institute of Health Carlos III
This re-accreditation complements the one obtained from CERCA at the beginning of the year
SeptiLoop receives € 100,000 to develop a rapid diagnostic kit for sepsis
The IDIBELL and Bellvitge University Hospital researcher Joan Sabater, in collaboration with the Loop Dx start-up, of the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technologies (CIMTI), has obtained € 100,000 of funding from the aid Product of the AGAUR agency of the Government of Catalonia. These aids are used to obtain prototypes and […]
[Statement] Finalisation of IDIBELL’s Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program
The Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) would like to state that, in accordance with the new responsibility of Dr Manel Esteller as director of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (IJC), the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) that he has led at IDIBELL so far has been discontinued. IDIBELL research groups led by Dr Montserrat Sanchez-Cespedes, Dr Àlex Vaquero, […]
IDIBELL celebrates 15 years
The Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute commemorates its 15 years of existence evaluating its past and facing the future with optimism