25/06/2018 - Research

The DiabetesCero (Diabetes Zero) Foundation has got the European Parliament talking about Diabetes Type 1

From Vilanova i la Geltrú to Brussels by bicycle.  This challenge was accepted by the father of a boy with diabetes type 1 (DT1) and member of the charity DiabetesCero, and on the way he managed get Euro MPs interested in the disease.  His amazing journey has produced a meeting to discuss the DT1 on 21-22 June; Dr Marta Vives-Pi, Group Leader of the Immunology of Diabetes Group of the IGTP was there.

11/06/2018 - Campus Can Ruti, Research

Beatriz Mothe awarded ex aequo at the 10th Research Symposium of the ICS

The 10^th Research Symposium of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) and the 11^th Research Symposium of the Primary Health Care Research Institute (IDIAP) Jordi Gol were held jointly on 7 June 2018.  The central theme of the event was the use of large clinical data bases to carry out research to improve health.

07/06/2018 - Campus Can Ruti, Research

Three projects from Campus Can Ruti in the 19th Simposium of La Marató

The TV3 La Marató Foundation has published the results of the cancer research supported by Funds from the marathon campaign of 2012.   Of the 79 research groups who participated in 42 projects financed by this edition of the programme three are from the IGTP.

30/05/2018 - Research

Four new papers show how the Anatomical Pathology Group in the HUGTP-IGTP are advancing towards a correct diagnostic for dementia with Lewy bodies

Dr Katrin Beyer studies the molecular neuropathology of synucleinopathies.  Here she tells us about her work and recent publications.

18/05/2018 - Research

Two new engineered tissue scaffolds developed and tested for repairing hearts after heart attack

Researchers from the CIBERCV group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) have developed and compared two scaffolds, made by tissue engineering techniques. 

04/05/2018 - Research

Scientists from the PMPPC edit a practical guide to the study of CpG islands

Miguel Angel Peinado and Tanya Vavouri from the Program for Predictive and personalized Medicine of Cancer (PMPPC) have edited a new handbook of laboratory methods for epigeneticists; CpG Islands: Methods and Protocols in the authoritative series Methods in Molecular Biology published by Springer Nature.

30/04/2018 - Research

Molecular detective work identifies a new long non-coding RNA implicated in some colon cancers

The Genetics and Epigenetics of Cancer Group, led by Manuel Perucho have just published a paper in the prestigious journal Nucleic Acids Research in which they describe a new RNA suspected of playing a role in some colon cancers

25/04/2018 - Research

20,000 healthy people from across Catalonia participate in a macro research project to better understand the risk factors for the most common diseases

The Genomes for Life Project (GCAT) in collaboration with the Blood and Tissue Bank (BST) has collected genetic, health and lifestyle information from 20,000 people in the Catalan area.  This April the first phase, the collection of samples and data, has closed and the second follow-up phase has got underway, this will continue for at least 20 years.  With all the data collected, the GCAT Project will be able to evaluate the role of genetic and epidemiological factors in the development of the main chronic diseases in Catalonia. 

20/04/2018 - Innovation, Research

MIT to Advise on an IGTP Project to Develop a Gel for Lesions Sustained during Digestive Endoscopies

In a program run by the Spanish Foundation for Innovation and Future Health (FIPSE) the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has selected an IGTP project for its Mentoring Program in Biomedicine.  The project is to develop a family of hydrogels to answer unmet needs in digestive endoscopies and avoid complications in endoscopic procedures

19/04/2018 - Projects, Research

A lack of iodine in the diet could threaten brain development in children

Scientists warn that a widespread lack of iodine threatens brain development in children.   Iodine insufficiency is one of easiest public health problems to solve, even though it affects so many people worldwide.  According to experts, the key to preventing iodine insufficiency is consumption of adequate amounts in a sustained and continued way.  The " Krakow Declaration on Iodine" created by the EUthyroid Project calls on those responsible for European policy to support measures to eliminate iodine insufficiency.