The first project of the Sant Pau Research Institute funded by the Department of Health is led by researchers José F. Nomdedeu Guinot and Silvia Vidal Alcorisa and aims to define the effective immune response against COVID-19 by studying antibodies against SARS-CoV -2 in the blood of health professionals. The second is led by the researcher Ivan Castellví, who plans to identify a possible marker to determine which COVID-19 patients will suffer from worsening respiratory failure.
The Department of Health, through the Directorate General for Healthcare Research and Innovation (DGRI), will invest 4 million euros in 19 research and innovation projects to prevent and treat COVID-19 disease. As part of an emergency call for proposals in collaboration with Biocat, the projects have been selected from among researchers at different healthcare research centers committed to the IRISCAT alliance (Institutes for Healthcare Research and Innovation of Catalonia).
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