25/12/2011 - Press release
For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in collaboration with researchers from Mount Sinai in New York, has also made it possible to determine that these neutrophils have an immunoregulating role.
Més informació "Discovered the existence of neutrophils in the spleen"
04/12/2011 - Press release
Nature Medicine publishes a pioneering study about a protein that regulates the expression of hundreds of genes that have a crucial role in the progression of pancreatic cancer, gliomas and possibly many other kinds of tumor. The study is directed by Pilar Navarro at the IMIM (Institut de Recerca Hospital del Mar, Barcelona) and Raúl Méndez, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).
Més informació "Discovery of a new reprogramming mechanism for tumor cells"
11/11/2011 - Press release
A study lead by a team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar and its research institute, IMIM, concludes that post-menopausal women with osteoarthritis have a 20% greater risk of experiencing bone fractures due to osteoporosis and are at greater risk of falling –nearly 30% more than post-menopausal women without osteoarthritis
26/10/2011 - Press release
New guidelines which provide an easy to use checklist for the accurate and ethical reporting of studies involving genetic or molecular risk factors for disease have been proposed by a group of international researchers among them Miquel Porta, head of the group of Clinical and molecular epidemiology of cancer at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), and are published in this week’s PLoS Medicine
13/10/2011 - Press release
The Spanish Society of Cardiology (Sociedad Española de Cardiología or SEC) warns that the percentage of the Spanish population with a good control of cardiovascular risk factors is no higher than, at best, 65%, and at worst, 34%.
06/10/2011 - Press release
Certara , a US-based company and a leader in the provision of translational medicine services and solutions, is set to be the exclusive distributor of the software developed by Chemotargets the first spin-off of the IMIM (Instituto de Investigación Hospital del Mar, 'Hospital del Mar Research Institute') dedicated to the design of new drugs.
19/09/2011 - Press release
A team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar and IMIM, as well as from CIBER for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES) – Carlos III Health Institute – Ministry of Science and Innovation- has lead a study proving that patients with severe COPD do not present muscular destruction until very advanced stages of the disease, especially when they still maintain a good muscle mass.
12/09/2011 - Press release
The International Consortium for Blood Pressure genome-wide association Studies (ICBP), an international project in which researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) have participated as the only Spanish researchers, has identified 29 loci or genetic characteristics, 16 of which are new, associated with the risk of presenting with high blood pressure in a population of European origin
Més informació "New Leads on the Genetic Origin of High Blood Pressure"
9/09/2011 - Press release
Researchers from the Hospital del Mar Oncology Department and the Cancer Research Programme of its research Institute, the ‘IMIM’, have confirmed the prognostic value of a new therapeutic target, the PARP1 protein, in breast cancer patients. This finding, which was published today in the Annals of Oncology, was achieved in partnership with the Jiménez-Díaz Foundation in Madrid and the Hospital Clínico in Valencia
08/09/2011 - Press release
A major landmark study released a few days ago by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in which IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) has participated, sheds new light on the state of Europe’s mental and neurological health.
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