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• 16/02/2011 - Press release

  Having a haemodynamics laboratory almost halves the number of infarction deaths

  A study published in the latest edition of Revista Española de Cardiología (REC, Spanish Journal of Cardiology) and carried out by researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in Barcelona and from the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona, highlights the importance of increasing the number of haemodynamics laboratories

  Més informació "Having a haemodynamics laboratory almost halves the number of infarction deaths"

• 14/02/2011 - Press release

  The Anti-Doping Laboratory ¡n Barcelona, recipient of the 2010 National Award for Research in Sports Medicine

  The 13th National Award for Research in Sports Medicine, awarded by the University of Oviedo and sponsored by Cajastur for the best research work in 2010, has been given to the work presented by the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in Barcelona.

  Més informació "The Anti-Doping Laboratory ¡n Barcelona, recipient of the 2010 National Award for Research in Sports Medicine"

• 03/02/2011 - Press release

  The IMIM is participating in a research project on NK cell activation

  

  The aim of the CLINK project is to develop various protocols for the “in vitro” activation and expansion of a type of immune system cell which is important for combating certain infections and tumours, called a natural killer cell (NK cell). The consortium will attempt to find an ideal system for activating these cells which would allow the largest number of cells to be obtained from one single donor and at the same time provide them with greater ability to kill tumours

  Més informació "The IMIM is participating in a research project on NK cell activation"

• 21th december 2010 - Press release

  Identification of new therapeutic weapons against the most aggressive form of breast cancer: objective of an ambitious investigation project

  Triple-negative breast cancer (Estrogen Receptor-Negative, Progesterone Receptor-Negative, and HER-Negative) is a type of breast cancer with clinical characteristics and specific pathologies that represents a relevant clinic problem, as it affects around 20% of all women with breast cancer, and especially those who are young.

  Més informació "Identification of new therapeutic weapons against the most aggressive form of breast cancer: objective of an ambitious investigation project"

• 16/11/2010 - Press release

  Benign skin tumours provide clues to the molecular mechanisms involved in cancer

  

  A study jointly led by researchers from the Hospital del Mar and the IMIM in Barcelona, Regensburg University (Germany) and the Epithelial Carcinogenesis group of the Molecular Pathology Programme at the National Centre for Cancer Research (CNIO, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas) has explained new aspects regarding the genetics of benign skin tumours which question how tumours develop and progress.

  Més informació "Benign skin tumours provide clues to the molecular mechanisms involved in cancer"

• 16/11/2010 - Press release

  Jordi Sunyer has been awarded the Advanced Grant for scientific excellence

  

  One of the grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) this year was for the BREATHE (BRain dEvelopment and Air polluTion ultrafine particles in scHool ChildrEn) project directed by Dr. Jordi Sunyer, co-director of the Research Centre for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and director of the IMIM Research Programme in Epidemiology and Public Health.

  Més informació "Jordi Sunyer has been awarded the Advanced Grant for scientific excellence"

• 08/11/2010 - Press release

  A new treatment option for fighting obesity has been identified

  

  A study in Barcelona led by Dr. Silvia Delgado of the Hospital del Mar Digestion Service and IMIM researcher at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, shows that speeding up the arrival of nutrients into the intestine with a drug manages to reduce the amount of food consumed in one meal. These results have been published in the International Journal of Obesity and involve a change of paradigm with regard to the established knowledge on the mechanisms which control satiety and ingestion in humans.

  Més informació "A new treatment option for fighting obesity has been identified"

• 25/10/2010 - Press release

  A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies several new susceptibility loci

  

  A large collaborative multi-stage study led by the US National Cancer NCI and based on the Spanish Bladder Cancer (SBCS) / EPICURO Study jointly coordinated by Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and the Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental (CREAL) and IMIM, has identified several new genetic variants associated with bladder cancer risk and validated recently reported variants.

  Més informació "A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies several new susceptibility loci"

• 19/10/2010 - Press release

  Diseases considered as mild most affect a country’s productivity

  

  Days of absence due to illness are the main source of lost human capital for a country’s economy. A paper led by researchers from the IMIM Health Services Research Group (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), has studied what mental and physical disorders occur most commonly and account for days of absence from the usual daily activity.

  Més informació "Diseases considered as mild most affect a country’s productivity"

• 07/10/2010 - Press release

  The Virtual Human Being: simulating how the human body works

  

  Tomorrow, Friday 8th October, is the last day of the meeting of the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE)’s second study group. This European Network of Excellence is coordinating a five-year series of activities on the development of the Virtual Human Being, with the aim of generating simulations of multi-scale models which reproduce the way the body works from the molecule to the organ.

  Més informació "The Virtual Human Being: simulating how the human body works"