Research Centre

04.06.2013 - 10.34 pm "Despite the crisis in Spain, Barcelona is a city that scores positively in international markets" Mateu Hernández is the General Director of Barcelona Global, an independent private association that is trying to make Barcelona one of the best...	17.05.2013 - 07.03 pm Catalan researchers find a vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes that works on mice The vaccine works by re-introducing immune system cells, which have previously been extracted and modified, in order to avoid the destruction of beta...	05.04.2013 - 10.27 pm A world-leading centre in human evolution unveils new facilities in Tarragona The Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) is one of the 3 centres with the highest scientific production...	06.03.2013 - 07.37 pm Survival rate of inoperable lung cancer patients raises to 80% with a pioneering technique developed in Catalonia The Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) has introduced a world pioneering technique which allows four out of five patients who cannot undergo surgery...
05.03.2013 - 06.58 pm Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Hospital discovers the essential role of a protein for colorectal cancer cell division This is a real stride for the cancer research. The effects of a protein called condensing on colorectal cancer have been found out by a team of...	15.02.2013 - 08.10 pm A Catalan study shows that a world-pioneering dialysis technique reduces patient mortality by 30% The technique started in Catalonia in 2007 and by 2011 it was practiced on 40% of patients with renal failure. The Catalan Health Ministry hopes to...	14.02.2013 - 02.57 pm The Mediterranean diet reduces by 6% the risk of developing breast cancer Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Oncology have led the largest international study on breast cance4r and nutrition. The 8-year study has...	07.02.2013 - 10.14 pm Type 1 diabetes has been totally cured for the first time in large animals thanks to the work of Catalan researchers Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have managed to completely cure dogs with type 1 diabetes through a single session of...
30.01.2013 - 09.17 pm Catalan centres are at the core of the billion-euro graphene and human brain research projects funded by the European Commission Through its FET-Flagship programme, the European Commission is allocating €1 billion to each of the two main research projects in Europe. The first...	25.01.2013 - 07.06 pm Catalan scientists discover that umbilical cord stem cells can treat heart attacks and strokes According to experiments tested on mice, Catalan scientists have affirmed that the stem cells located in the human umbilical chord, which are...	23.01.2013 - 05.17 pm Time spent between the first and the second chemotherapy treatment increases survival rate in bladder cancer A research group led by Catalan doctor Joaquim Bellmunt at the Hospital del Mar has shown in a study how important the time between two chemotherapy...	17.01.2013 - 11.11 pm Treating HIV just after the infection delays the damage to the immune system An international study with the participation of the Hospital Clínic IDIBAPS, which is a leading research centre at a world level on AIDS/HIV and...
10.01.2013 - 11.08 pm The University of Barcelona and the Hospital Clínic unveil a new biomedicine centre with more than 200 researchers The IDIBAPS has opened a new research centre of more than 5,000 m2, where more than 200 researchers split into 23 different research groups will be...	17.12.2012 - 10.47 pm Catalan universities have a research model “comparable” to the most advanced EU countries A study undertaken by the Catalan Association of Public Universities shows that 64% of all funds for research came from public or private competition...	11.12.2012 - 07.37 pm Two therapeutic targets in a child cancer are identified by Catalan researchers The Barcelona-based Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) has identified two proteins that block the metastasis of rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of...	12.11.2012 - 10.25 pm The key process behind the metastasis of colon cancer is discovered by Catalan scientists Scientists from the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at the Barcelona Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB) have discovered the essential process that...