Sant Pau creates a new transversal research program on Women’s Health and Gender. The Research Institute of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau has launched a new cross-cutting research program to promote a gender perspective in all of its research areas and groups.
The Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau has developed a new CAR-T 19 immunotherapy drug that has just begun to be administered, as part of a clinical trial, to patients with certain types of lymphoma (diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma) who have not responded to other treatments. With this new and unique therapeutic proposal in Spain for these patients, Sant Pau offers its second academic advanced therapy medicinal product, which means that it has been entirely produced and developed at Sant Pau. This new CAR-T 19 is characterized by being enriched in memory T lymphocytes, which are longer-lasting over time, with the aim of having greater efficacy against the disease.
Cancer patients are at high risk of suffering a thrombotic event that can worsen their prognosis and quality of life. Researchers from the Research Group on Genomics of Complex Diseases of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau, led by Dr. José Manuel Soria, and the Medical Oncology Service of the Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital in Madrid, led by Dr. Andrés Muñoz, within the framework of the Thrombosis and Cancer Section of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) have developed and validated a new tool or score, called ONCOTHROMB, which for the first time combines clinical data and genomics of the patient. This tool has shown an excellent predictive capacity of the risk of suffering venous thromboembolic events by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy outpatient treatment.
The results, published by the prestigious journal Nature, show that the deficiency in the cells’ natural process to repair the damage produced by chemicals that damage DNA, called aldehydes, is responsible for the risk of developing carcinoma of head and neck squamous cells.
An international study in which researchers from the Dementia Neurobiology Group and the Memory Unit of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau participated, leaded by Alberto Lleó, discovered two new genes associated with a significantly increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
El comitè científic del Congrés de Cirurgians Neurològics (CNS) ha triat un estudi de l’Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau com a millor manuscrit de l’any 2022 a l’àrea de Cirurgia neurofuncional i estereotàxica. Es tracta d’un estudi publicat a la revista Neurosurgery, els autors principals del qual són Juan Ángel Aibar-Durán, del Servei de Neurocirurgia, i Francisco Javier de Diego, del servei de Psiquiatria d’aquest hospital.
An international study, in which the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau has participated, has found 89 genes involved in the risk of developing a stroke, of which 61 had not been previously described. This is the largest and most comprehensive study conducted ever.
The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed September 21 World Alzheimer’s Day in 1994 under the auspices of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI)..
Science will be the protagonist this year in the free entry day that the Recinto Modernista de Sant Pau has scheduled for the next September, 24th to celebrate the Fiestas de la Mercè and on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
The Board of Trustees of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital Research Institute Foundation (IR-Sant Pau) has approved the designation of Mr. Jaume Bacardit as new manager of the institute. He has more than 25 years of experience in the international biomedical research sector and is an expert in finance and economic management. His expertise will be key to facing the institute’s challenges.
The Alzheimer’s Association will finance three projects of the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau within the framework of its international research grant program (International Research Grant Program). The winning projects are led by Olivia Belbin, Miguel Ángel Santos and María Carmona.
Dr. Francisco Illana Cámara, researcher at the Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) and deputy of the Biochemistry Service of the same hospital, has obtained one of the four grants to young researchers 2022 granted by the Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQCML) with funding from the José Luis Castaño-SEQC Foundation. This aid will be to develop a method of detecting methylated circulating free DNA for the detection of colorectal cancer.
The Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau has obtained 9 places for the INVESTIGO 2022 Program for the recruitment of young people seeking employment. These grants are intended for carrying out research and innovation activities within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Generalitat de Catalunya – AGAUR.
Dr. Juan Fortea, researcher at the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau and head of the Memory Unit of the Neurology Service of the same hospital, has been elected coordinator of the Down Syndrome Study Group and Alzheimer from the International Society for the Advancement of Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART).
The board of directors of the Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute – IIB Sant Pau has just unanimously appointed Prof. Josep Santaló as research ombudsperson of the IIB Sant Pau, at the proposal of the institute’s management.
The Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau) receives a researcher from Ukraine through the #ScienceForUkraine platform. This initiative arises from an international movement promoted by volunteer scientists, academics and students to support the Ukrainian academic community by offering them opportunities for scientific stays or jobs in the international arena.
The Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have created the Joint Research Unit in Genomic Medicine UAB – IR Sant Pau with the aim of investigating the diagnosis, physiopathology and therapeutics of genetic diseases and tumour predisposition syndromes. The project is supported by the Fundació Privada del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
