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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Study led by IGTP reveals correlation between tuberculosis lesion transcriptomics and patients’ clinical parameters
Researchers from the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit (UTE) at the IGTP and the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital have published a study in Nature Communications in which, for the first time, the transcriptomic profile of human tuberculosis lung lesions is correlated with clinical data from the same patients.