22/09/2009 - Institutional news
On Monday, September 21, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden and a delegation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences have visited the PRBB. The delegation is on a 4-day Royal Technology Mission to Spain and has chosen the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park to get informed about the infrastructure and the research that is carried out in this building.
28/08/2009 - Press release
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects almost half of smokers of advanced age. Although clinical manifestations and disease severity vary greatly across patients, treatment is often similar. Through the development of a new risk index for COPD patients, researchers are seeking ways to improve this situation.
11/08/2009 - Press release
Researchers at the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) have observed that the household use of bleach is associated with a lower sensitivity to allergens, both inside the home (for example, cat allergens) as well as those outside the home (pollen allergens).
14/07/2009 - Press release
Experts of the IMIM-Hospital del Mar Cancer Research Programme have collaborated on a study that identifies new keys in breast cancer tumour invasion. The study has been published in the prestigious journal Nature Cell Biology.
Més informació "Keys to reprogramming cells and suppressing tumour invasion"
07/07/2009 - General information
Following the assessment by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective Studies (ANEP), the Foundation Board of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) approved, on 17 June, the awarding of two grants worth 1,200,000 euros over a period of 5 years to research programmes that jointly coordinate and run a translational research programme.
Més informació "The AECC grants €1,200,000 to a project in which IMIM is participating"
08/07/2009 - Press release
The medical history of more than 35 million Europeans will be studied in order for doctors to gain a better understanding of how to balance the risk of gastrointestinal and cardiovascular episodes related to prescription NSAIDs.
15/06/2009 - General information
Jordi Mestres, coordinator of the Chemogenomics Laboratory at IMIM-Hospital del Mar, will be one of the 4 editors of the new magazine Molecular Informatics that will be published by Wiley-VCH publishers starting in January 2010.
Més informació "Jordi Mestres, editor of Molecular Informatics"
08/06/2009 - Press release
A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology that was done by researchers at CREAL-IMIM makes it clear that gas combustion in homes affects the neuropsychological development of children and that this damaging effect is aggravated when there is a specific genetic susceptibility.
Més informació "Contamination in homes can affect children’s cognitive development and behaviour"
8/05/2009 - Press release
The greater the amount of pollution due to suspended particulate matter from traffic in residential areas, the greater the risk of developing asthma. This not only affects children, but also non-smoking adults. This was the conclusion reached by the SAPALDIA cohort study backed by the Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (Swiss National Foundation on Scientific Research) in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL).
11/05/2009 - Press release
Start of international multi-centre study MOBI-KIDS, coordinated by the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), involving research groups in 13 countries investigating a relationship between communication technologies including mobile phones and environmental factors and brain cancer in young people
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