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Madrid 12.11.24

Support of 25.7 million for basic, clinical and translational research projects in biomedicine

The "la Caixa" Foundation has selected 29 new biomedical research projects of excellence with a high social impact as part of the CaixaResearch Health Call 2024, endowed with 25.7 million euros, so that they can be conducted in research centres, ...
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Barcelona 14.10.24

From laboratory to patient: the ”la Caixa” Foundation promotes 29 biomedicine and health projects

The "la Caixa" Foundation has concluded the 2024 call for the CaixaImpulse Innovation programme, through which it supports 29 new biomedical projects from research centres, hospitals and universities in Spain and Portugal. In total, the Foundation ...
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Barcelona 01.08.24

Artificial intelligence in biomedicine to help research advance faster

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and its application and integration in different fields has become increasingly tangible in our daily lives. In the field of biomedicine and health, the scenarios that arise are encouraging: perfecting ...
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Garafía 09.07.24

Studying the stars from the Canary Islands to understand the world

Ana Escorza and Michael Abdul-Masih analyse stars at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. They met in Belgium, got married in Chile and now, thanks to the "la Caixa" Foundation’s Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships, are working in Spain to ...
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Barcelona 04.07.24

Compact cities have lower carbon emissions but poorer air quality

What types of cities exist in Europe and which are more favourable in terms of human health, environmental quality and carbon footprint? To answer these questions, a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre ...
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Madrid 16.05.24

Overcoming superbugs, one of the great challenges of this century

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 ...
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Kioto, japón 03.05.24

Kaori Mutsuda: «In the long term, a human body could be recreated on a chip»

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. ...
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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 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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