At the IGTP TODAY
CEEISCAT, a research group at IGTP, is developing Pan-Téstate, an online self-sampling program aimed at improving early screening for HIV and viral hepatitis among GBMSM and trans women in Spain. Using dried blood spot samples collected at home, the initiative seeks to reduce barriers to testing and improve access to early diagnosis and prevention.
The Biostatistics Unit at IGTP has developed flowchart, an R package that automatically generates participant flow diagrams directly from study data, improving reproducibility and reducing errors. Integrated with the tidyverse, it enables the creation of clear, publication-ready figures in just a few steps. The tool, described in Journal of Open Research Software, simplifies a typically manual and time-consuming process in clinical and epidemiological research.
CEEISCAT, a research group of IGTP, held its 8th Annual Meeting on 14 April at Palau Macaya. The event brought together around 100 health and research professionals to discuss how scientific knowledge is transformed into action, impact and real improvements in population health.
The event, held at CMCiB, brought together institutional representatives, the scientific community and healthcare professionals at the Can Ruti Campus, including the president of the Government of Catalonia, Salvador Illa. The gathering highlighted the institute's trajectory and its role within the Catalan research system.
The B-DLNM methodology enables the analysis of complex, time-dependent exposure-response relationships using a flexible Bayesian framework. The bdlnm package makes this approach accessible to researchers through a user-friendly implementation.
A study led by the IGTP, the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV-CSIC) analyses bacterial strains between 2021 and 2023 and shows how genomic sequencing can improve transmission detection and inform public health interventions.
The Innomed community visited the Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST) yesterday as part of a new meeting organised within the framework of the Innomed programme, led by the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), with the aim of strengthening connections between research institutions, hospitals and organisations within the biomedical ecosystem, and exploring new opportunities for collaboration in the field of advanced therapies and health innovation.
As part of the European Day for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Risk, the podcast launches its eleventh episode, dedicated to myocardial infarction, featuring Ferran Rueda and Santi Roura from Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and Research Institute, respectively.
On the occasion of World Kidney Day, held every year on 12 March, the IGTP, in collaboration with the Nephrology Department of the Hospital Germans Trias and the spin-off Debios Diagnostics, is promoting the PROMORFI project, a translational innovation initiative aimed at improving the detection and monitoring of chronic kidney disease through new non-invasive diagnostic tools and new models of clinical care.
A team of researchers from the IGTP and the IISPV has published a study in the scientific journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases describing an experimental rat model that reproduces key features of creeping fat, the accumulation of adipose tissue surrounding inflamed intestinal segments and one of the characteristic pathological features of Crohn's disease.
