26/07/2022 - General information
This is the question that Dr. Daniel Guinart, Dr. Víctor Pérez and Dr. Benedikt Amann, researchers from the Neurosciences Research Programme at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, attempt to answer in a letter recently published in The Lancet. The role peer reviewers of scientific articles play and the debate on whether their work should be remunerated are the focus of a letter by Dr. Daniel Guinart, Dr. Víctor Pérez and Dr. Benedikt Amann, researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute's Neurosciences Research Programme (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) that has been published in The Lancet. It is a voluntary task, based on a "code of honour", as the authors put it, but which in recent times has become an exploitative system.
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25/07/2022 - Institutional news
Monday 25 July marks the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of the Barcelona Olympic Games, which represented a historic milestone for the city. During this great event, the Anti-Doping Laboratory of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) was entrusted with the anti-doping controls of the athletes at both the Barcelona 92 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The laboratory was set up in 1985 as part of the Barcelona Olympic bid. Its designation as an Olympic laboratory allowed the modernization of the facilities and equipment of both the laboratory itself and the IMIM. The laboratory took up anarea of 1100 m2, and during the Games it worked 24 hours a day. In total, close to 110 people were involved in the anti-doping work, considering the laboratory staff, guest scientific staff, volunteers and support staff.
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20/07/2022 - General information
The IMIM-Hospital del Mar has been awarded three grants in the latest call. They are aimed at promoting the hiring of researchers with a doctoral degree at Spanish research centres. Three researchers from IMIM-Hospital del Mar have been selected in the latest call for the Juan de la Cierva-incorporation grants from the State Research Agency. The successful candidates are Joan Jiménez Balado, from the Neurovascular Research Group, Ana Rocío Conde Moro, from the Cellular Mechanisms in Physiological and Pathological Behaviour Research Group, and Helena Garcia Mieres, from the Health Services Research Group.
14/07/2022 - General information
After the success of "La mare de la ciència", the PRBB's science outreach podcast in Catalan, June saw the launch of "Absolutos y Relativos", the second science outreach podcast from the PRBB, which this time will be in Spanish. On 14 July, Patricia Robledo, a researcher from the Integrated Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience research group at the IMIM, explains the neuroscience and drug studies she is carrying out, and talks about her research career, which is closely linked to psychology.
12/07/2022 - General information
This is one of the fifteen biomedical projects selected in the CaixaResearch Validate call. In this case, the study led by the researcher from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute seeks effective immunotherapy treatment for breast tumours. The "la Caixa" Foundation is supporting 15 leading biomedical research projects in Spain and Portugal in the CaixaResearch Validate 2022 call. These are early-stage projects that the organisation wants to support to accelerate their arrival on the market, thereby helping them reach patients who may need them. Among those selected is a project led by Dr. Toni Celià-Terrassa, who heads up the Cancer Stem Cells and Metastasis Dynamics laboratory at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar).
04/07/2022 - Covid-19
The possibility of re-freezing vials once they are prepared may enable the manipulation of vaccines in the country of origin, freezing the syringes, and sending them to their destination for immediate use, without the need for a major infrastructure. The shelf life of the re-frozen vaccine is at least one month.
07/07/2022 - Covid-19
A study on the vaccine response of patients with primary antibody deficiency carried out by the Functional Unit of Primary Immunodeficiencies at Hospital del Mar together with the dibi Network (Reference Laboratory of Catalonia) has revealed that a good number of these people have antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 without actually having contracted COVID-19. The study, published in the journal Immunology, is the first to certify the transmission of antinucleocapsid antibodies (ANC) from donors to patients with primary immunodeficiency.
28/06/2022 - General information
This is a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the breast cancer screening program. Its main author is Dr. Guillem Bosch, resident physician of the PSMAR-UPF-ASPB Teaching Unit and member of the Health Services Research Group of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute.
17/06/2022 - Institutional news
IMIM-Hospital del Mar is committed to attracting scientific talent of excellence and young researchers through IMIM-OpenLAB. The initiative provides fully equipped facilities and young scientists who choose to take advantage of this opportunity are guaranteed initial funding. The centre has set up a new laboratory area with the intention of facilitating transversal and multidisciplinary work and promoting the incorporation of new researchers who are committed to undertaking or continuing their research in the biomedical cluster comprising the IMIM, Hospital del Mar and the PRBB environment. A space in which the Immune Redirection Research Group is already at work, focusing on the identification of specific alterations in tumour cells that can be used as therapeutic targets for new anti-cancer treatments, such as immunotherapy.
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