The project is one of the most ambitious undertaken by the "la Caixa" Foundation and it will involve an investment of 100 million euros. Its design, which has become a major architectural challenge, was entrusted to TAC Arquitectes. The building ...

Scientific outreach is essential to strengthen the role and contribution of science in addressing today’s societal challenges. In a global context marked by uncertainty and constant change, the synergies between the CaixaResearch Institute, ...

Scientific philanthropy is steadily gaining ground in Europe, as demonstrated in Barcelona by the meeting of more than twenty European foundations to discuss their role in the creation and management of research centres. Within this framework, the ...

Placing immunology at the centre, harnessing the opportunities that arise from connecting biomedical research disciplines, and attracting scientific talent: these are the foundations upon which the CaixaResearch Institute is built. This new centre, ...

The "la Caixa" Foundation has, over more than 120 years, built a solid model of support for research, health and talent. This trajectory began at the start of the twentieth century with the creation of "la Caixa", promoted by Francesc Moragas, and ...

The "la Caixa" Foundation is bringing to fruition a decades-long strategy of supporting centres of excellence in biomedical research with the creation of the CaixaResearch Institute. Specialising in immunology, the new centre is joining an ...

For decades, immunology occupied a relatively modest place in medical textbooks. Today, however, it has become a central discipline that allows much of human disease to be reinterpreted. Initially studied in relation to infections, we now know that ...

What in 2009 seemed like an unrepeatable milestone—the case of Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin Patient and the first documented case of HIV cure—is no longer an exception. Ten people worldwide have managed to eliminate the virus after ...

CaixaForum Madrid premieres the exhibition I Am Ashurbanipal, King of the World, King of Assyria, featuring 158 objects from the British Museum collection that trace the life and legacy of Ashurbanipal (669 – c. 631 BC), the last great ruler of the ...