16/11/2021 - Research

IV Workshop on translational research on urological tumours. From the laboratory to clinical practice

On 11-12 November the IV Workshop on translational research on urological tumours: from the laboratory to clinical practice took place at the Badalona Conference Centre (BCIN). They were jointly organized by the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and the Badalona Applied Research Group in Oncology (B·ARGO), and the Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) and are scientifically accredited by SEOM and SOGUG.

11/11/2021 - Research

Art and Science come together in Alella for the IN_CERT Project to Reflect on the Pandemic

A series of events to shine a light between the connection between art and science in times of pandemic. Events at the Can Manyé Cultural Centre in Alella and the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital.

09/11/2021 - Research

The GCAT Project gathers strength with the VEIS website opening today

Today the VEIS website opens and the IGTP-GCAT is proud to be a member of the consortium. VEIS - Valorization of the EGA for Industry and Society is a step forward towards personalized medicine in Catalonia.

26/10/2021 - Campus Can Ruti, Institutional

The director of IrsiCaixa Bonaventura Clotet is awarded the 2020 'Premi Nacional de Recerca'

Dr Bonaventura Clotet, Director of IrsiCaixa and member of the Board of Trustees of the IGTP has been awarded the prestigious 'Premi Nacional de Recerca' in recognition of his contribution to science with his work on infectious diseases, especially HIV and AIDS.

20/10/2021 - Campus Can Ruti, Institutional

The IGTP-HUGTP Biobank has renewed its ISO quality certificate for the CIBERES collection of pulmonary samples

The CIBERES collection, within the Pulmonary Biobank Platform, has been housed in the IGTP-HUGTP Biobank since 2012. The Pulmonary Biobank Platform finances the audit necessary for the certification, which is required for all their collections. The certificate covers the collection, processing and storage and distribution of biological samples in respiratory medicine.

18/10/2021 - Research

CEEISCAT researchers coordinate a project identifying the risk factors for severe covid-19 for people living with HIV

A study coordinated by researchers of the Centre for Epidemiological Studies of Sexually Transmitted Disease and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT) a research group affiliated with and based at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) publish a paper in the HIV Lancet showing the risk factors for suffering severe covid-19 for people living with HIV in Catalonia. The results show that people living with HIV at the same time as other chronic diseases and unsuppressed viral loads have a higher risk of suffering severe covid-19 and should be given priority for testing, medical management and vaccination programmes to protect against SARS-CoV-2.

15/10/2021 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences

Only half of the scientific conferences and events organized on our campus reach the objectives of the European Commission for gender equality

This is the second year that the WiS Group have monitored the scientific activity on Can Ruti Campus.

15/10/2021 - Conferences

The XIX edition of the Translational Research and Digestive Neoplasms Workshop declared a great success

The XIX edition of the Translational Research and Digestive Neoplasms Workshop was declared a complete success, both as it was able to be carried out face to face, but also for the level of the participating speakers.

01/10/2021 - Institutional

Researchers explain science like never before in the first European Performing Science Night in Badalona

The Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) has participated in a ground-breaking event to bring art and science together for European Performing Science Night with results that left nobody indifferent. The Fundació Èpica la Fura dels Baus led the project which involved artists and scientists from the IGTP and four international universities.

27/09/2021 - Research

The SeqCOVID Consortium demonstrates that confinement eliminated the coronavirus variants circulating during the first wave in Spain

Scientists from the IGTP and the hospital have participated in the SeqCOVID consortium of 50 health research centres, led from Valencia. The latest study published in Nature Genetics identifies nine variants that dominated the pandemic between March and June 2020 in Spain. The Badalona team, in collaboration with the team in Valencia, detected the first case of the Alpha variant (first detected in the United Kingdom) in Catalonia in December 2020