Fundació La Marató de TV3 has announced the research projects on diabetes and obesity that will be funded with funds from La Marató 2015. Among the winners is the coordinated research work between Dr. Josep Julve Gil, researcher at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (Metabolic Basis of Cardiovascular Risk Group) and Dr. Nuria Alonso-Pedrol of the Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Research Institute on “lipotoxicity and microvascular disease: contribution to the Myocardial damage in clinical and animal models of diabetes. ” A job that will receive a grant of € 269,902.50.
On the other hand, the research project coordinated between the Memory Unit of the Neurology Service of the Hospital de Sant Pau, with Dr. Rafael Blesa to the front and Dr. Amanda Jiménez of the Endocrinology Service of the Clinical Hospital who will receive € 299,937.50 for the project “Preclinical Alzheimer’s disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. Effects of bariatric surgery: a multimodal study”.