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  Barcelona 29.04.24

  Treating cancer when neither chemotherapy nor transplant works

  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 ...

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  Barcelona 24.04.24

  A peaceful goodbye

  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, ...

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  Barcelona 28.02.24

  Xavier Gómez-Batiste: «We’re working to make palliative care a universal right»

  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 ...

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  Barcelona 28.02.24

  An artificial placenta to increase survival of the most premature babies

  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 ...

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  Girona 28.02.24

  The future of biomedical and health research in Spain and Portugal

  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 ...

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  Barcelona 31.10.23

  The ”la Caixa” Foundation lays the first stone of the CaixaResearch Institute

  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 ...

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  Barcelona 17.10.23

  29 projects receive support from the ”la Caixa” Foundation to transfer their cutting-edge research from the laboratory to patients

  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 ...

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  Barcelona 19.06.23

  The CaixaResearch Artificial Placenta project achieves foetal survival of 12 days in good health

  Over the first two and a half years of the project, the CaixaResearch Artificial Placenta scientific team developed a prototype of a functional artificial placenta with 12-day survival with good foetal health in an animal model, demonstrating that ...

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  Barcelona 14.11.22

  ”la Caixa” Foundation supports three innovative biomedical projects to help them transfer from the lab to the market and society

  The CaixaResearch Consolidate 2022 call for proposals resulted in the selection of three promising innovative biomedical projects. Each will receive funding of 300,000 euros to help their innovations reach the market and society as a whole.

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