Research and Health

A clinical trial conducted by the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, supported by the Obra Social "la Caixa" and the Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Fight AIDS Foundation has induced HIV control in 5 people who have ...

Jaume Giró, CEO of "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, and Marcelino Armenter, president of Caixa Capital Risc, today presented CaixaImpulse, a unique initiative in Spain, established to promote the transformation of scientific knowledge into companies ...

Although the decrease is not sufficient, the first therapeutic vaccine, designed from the dendritic cells of the actual patient by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-IDIBAPS has achieved a significant response in the majority of patients. The ...

The CaixaForum Madrid is the result of a single desire: to extend and diversity the social and cultural activities offered by "la Caixa" Social and Cultural Outreach Projects in the capital to benefit of its citizens. It represents a new concept in ...

On 14 November the irsiCaixa Foundation will host the 4th International Symposium on HIV Eradication which will present, among other recent findings, the first results concerning the therapeutic vaccine for patients already infected by the human ...

"la Caixa" Foundation has signed 20 agreements with Spanish research teams within the framework of its competitions for research grants in the fields of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer for 2003. Twelve scientific teams will be awarded grants ...

"la Caixa" Foundation has selected six research projects in its First Grants Competition for Oncology Research. These studies, presented by scientific teams from Madrid (2), Barcelona (2), Lleida and Oviedo, focus largely on understanding cancer at ...

The eight teams subsidised in the 2002 Call for Aid will study the genetic and molecular causes of Alzheimer's disease, the regeneration of brain tissue via transplants, the diagnosis and treatment of demyelinating diseases and the origin of a broad ...