Research and Health

Every year, 1.2 million people around the world die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. According to the WHO, the ability of bacteria to adapt and resist drugs designed to combat them is already one of the biggest threats to ...

Kaori Mutsuda Zapater (Barcelona, 1996) is a biotechnologist. Thanks to a postgraduate fellowship abroad from the "la Caixa" Foundation, she is studying for her PhD in Kyoto, in a new faculty dedicated to finding solutions to ensure human survival. ...

Without the most common side effects, with improvement from the first days and complete remission after 18 months in almost 70% of cases. A clinical trial of CAR-T therapies coordinated by the Hospital Clínic Barcelona - IDIBAPS, with the support of ...

When Rosa’s mother Antonia’s cancer was no longer responding to treatment, the social worker offered them psychological help. Darío, a psychologist from the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Comprehensive care for people with advanced diseases programme, ...

Death makes us uncomfortable, even though it’s part of life: it’s something we will all experience. In this interview, Xavier Gómez-Batiste, scientific director of the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Comprehensive Care Programme for People with Advanced ...

Every year, 28,000 premature babies are born in Spain, 800 of them extremely premature with a higher risk of suffering complications or not surviving. BCNatal, which integrates functionally the Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics Departments of ...

It’s not every day that a group of scientists of the highest calibre from different disciplines meet up to discuss, share knowledge and jointly seek solutions to the current and future challenges facing their profession. This is precisely what ...

The institute will be the first research centre specialising in immunology in Spain and one of the first in Europe. With an investment of around 100 million euros, it will have a total area of over 20,000 m2 and some 500 people are expected to work ...

The 2023 call of the new CaixaImpulse Innovation programme has awarded 3.3 million euros to 29 biomedical research projects, with the aim of contributing to the transfer of research findings to society and the market and fostering the creation of ...