23/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Innovation, Projects, Success Stories

A project on an innovative tool for cancer surgery, selected in the 2025 CaixaImpulse call

The "la Caixa" Foundation has announced the results of the 2025 call for proposals for its CaixaImpulse program, through which it supports 31 biomedical projects from research centres, hospitals and universities in Spain and Portugal. A project coordinated by IIS IGTP led by Ana Piqueras (HUGTiP) has been selected in the call to continue with the development and implementation of a medical device to find and remove cancer cells more accurately during surgery.

19/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Innovation, Success Stories

The Innomed community visits the Immunoassay Technology Center, Werfen’s facilities in Lliçà d’Amunt

On 18 September, around thirty people involved in the Innomed program visited the Werfen facilities in Lliçà d'Amunt (the Immunoassay Technology Center). The meeting provided an opportunity to learn about the company's strategic areas and to establish contacts for exploring possible collaborations.

08/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Institutional, Success Stories

IGTP publishes its 2024 Annual Report, a year of institutional recognition and advances in research

The report, available in its extended format and in summary versions, compiles the institution's activity during 2024 and reflects its growth and consolidation.

04/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Projects, Research, Success Stories

Germans Trias, the first centre in Spain to include a patient in an international study on the early treatment of aortic stenosis

The iCor team at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute is the first in Spain to enrol a patient in the international EASY-AS study, a clinical trial to evaluate whether intervening before the first symptoms of severe aortic stenosis appear can improve clinical outcomes.

26/08/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Success Stories

Can Ruti welcomes patients and families from across Europe as part of the NF Academy 2025

The Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute welcomed patients and families from several European countries as part of the NF Academy 2025, an event organised by Neurofibromatosis Patients United together with the ACNEFI to train and empower young people living with NF1, NF2-SWN and SWN.

23/07/2025 - Projects, Research, Success Stories

A new European study with the participation of GCAT reveals that the combination of urban environmental factors increases asthma risk

Researchers from GCAT have taken part in a study on the effects of various environmental factors on the risk of developing asthma over the course of life. The study involved nearly 350,000 participants from European cohorts and used geolocation technologies and satellite imagery to estimate exposure to different environmental elements. The results show a clear link between urban conditions and an increased risk of asthma.

09/07/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Projects, Success Stories

Fundación Mutua funds a Can Ruti project on the role of unknown viruses in head and neck tumours

Research teams from IGTP, ICO and IrsiCaixa have been granted funding from Fundación Mutua Madrileña to conduct the ERICA Project, which aims to investigate the role of viral infections in the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

30/06/2025 - Innovation, Institutional, Projects, Success Stories

Boehringer Ingelheim and the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute strengthen their collaboration in preclinical research

The agreement between Boehringer Ingelheim and IGTP builds on a collaboration that began in 2020 to improve understanding of cardio-renal-metabolic diseases and their interconnection, and now includes the development of a new line of research to assess the potential of novel molecules in this field.

19/06/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Innovation, Success Stories

The Innomed Awards highlight fifteen innovative biomedical projects in their second edition

The Innomed program, an initiative led and coordinated by the IGTP, has concluded the second edition of its GrowInn project incubator with the celebration of the Innomed Awards, which have gathered over 150 people and recognised five projects for their talent and determination.

12/06/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Research, Success Stories

Successful turnout at the 1st CORE IGTP Scientific Conference, a meeting to advance population health research

The first CORE IGTP Scientific Conference was held at the Badalona International Business Centre (BCIN), an initiative of the CORE Program that aims to establish itself as an annual space for meeting, debate and scientific exchange among professionals involved in population health research.