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.
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.
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.
The Escoles Sentinella project, coordinated by the CEEISCAT Group at IGTP, presented the main results of its fifth and final academic year. This initiative has shown that the network is viable and generates relevant scientific evidence on school health through collaboration between schools, researchers and public institutions.
IGTP has launched the European project TB-SPECTRUM, funded under the Horizon Europe programme through the MSCA Staff Exchanges scheme and coordinated by IGTP. A kick-off meeting held online brought together researchers, clinicians, and representatives from academic and non-academic institutions across Europe, Africa, and the United States, alongside members of the project's External Scientific and Ethics Advisory Boards.
A preclinical study led by IGTP, in collaboration with the Institut de Myologie and the IR Sant Pau, has analysed the role of the protein HDAC11 in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its potential as a therapeutic target. The results of the study have been published in the journal Life Sciences.
A multidisciplinary work led by IGTP researchers has analysed the relationship between climatic conditions, the presence of Legionella in water systems and cases of Legionnaires' disease in Catalonia, revealing a link between these different factors.
A recent study has carried out a systematic review of the scientific literature on omics data generated in pituitary tumours, with the aim of organising, cataloguing and facilitating the reuse of publicly available resources for future research projects.
