11/02/2026 - General information
Today, 11 February, the Hospital del Mar Research Institute joins the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a key date to recognize the fundamental role of women in research and to continue moving towards a more just, diverse, and inclusive science. Despite the progress made, women remain underrepresented in science worldwide: less than one third of all researchers are women. At the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, every day we help advance science, medicine, and health. We are professionals from many different fields who research, care, create, and transform to expand knowledge and improve people's lives.
Més informació "The future of science begins with today's girls"
09/02/2026 - General information
The use of a standardized protocol significantly reduces headache after lumbar puncture, one of the most common side effects of this procedure, based on the analysis of more than 1,100 punctures. Improving the tolerability of lumbar puncture is key to advancing research in the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease and has been made possible thanks to the commitment of volunteers from the ALFA cohort. The study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, involved 724 cognitively healthy adults from the longitudinal ALFA cohort at the BBRC, with the support of the "la Caixa" Foundation.
02/02/2026 - General information
The Machine of Forgetting is a guide to understanding how memory works and how it defines who we are. Through eleven questions, it explores a wide range of issues, from how we store memories to what makes us human, including the possibility that androids might have feelings. Published by Editorial Ariel, the new book by Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, neuroscientist at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute and ICREA professor, opens the door to the latest advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, while also establishing parallels with art, philosophy, and football.
27/01/2026 - General information
The Hospital del Mar Research Institute is participating in two of the projects selected by Barcelona City Council and the "la Caixa" Foundation as part of the 2025 edition of the grants awarded by the two entities to emerging research projects in the fields of health and sustainability. Altogether, the initiatives will receive a total of two million euros in funding. One of the projects (DESODEM-BCN) will analyse social determinants in urban dementia. It will study how socioeconomic position, social infrastructure and air pollution influence dementia symptomatology and biology in Barcelona. The project combines biomedical, social and urban research to identify inequalities in diagnosis and disease progression, with special attention to the pTau217 biomarker. It is led by the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS), in collaboration with the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA) and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB).
13/01/2026 - General information
The journal Nature Mental Health has published a landmark scientific article on the prevention of depression and suicidal behaviour through an evidence-based programme designed to reduce depression and suicidal behaviour: the 4-Level Community Intervention, developed by the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD). The EAAD approach offers a sustainable model of community-based mental health care that can be effectively adapted to a wide range of contexts, including current and future public health emergencies.
29/12/2025 - General information
A clinical trial led by a team from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, in collaboration with Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, has received nearly €1.3 million in funding from Spain's Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), under the 2025 call of the Strategic Action in Health-Strategic Lines of Health Research. It is one of the 14 clinical trials selected. The trial is led by Dr. Ana Aldea, coordinator of the HMRIB Clinical Research Unit and Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Section at Hospital del Mar, and Dr. Rafael de la Torre, coordinator of the Integrated Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute.
24/12/2025 - General information
23/12/2025 - General information
The Joan Oró grants aim to fund the recruitment of predoctoral researchers in training who pursue their PhD studies within the Catalan university system. These grants help promote the training and research activities of the recruited researchers and increase their qualifications and professional development during the early stages of their research careers, thereby strengthening the generation of cutting-edge knowledge and its transfer.
18/12/2025 - General information
The study published last April in PNAS by the team led by Dr Pilar Navarro, coordinator of the Cancer Molecular Targets Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute and the IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS, has been selected by Nature as one of the ‘Six highlights from pancreatic cancer research’ of 2025.
24/11/2025 - General information
The new edition of the Highly Cited Researchers ranking, produced by Clarivate, has selected 6,868 researchers worldwide who have demonstrated significant influence in their research fields over the past eleven years. Two researchers from the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Dr Jordi Alonso and Dr Joaquim Bellmunt, are once again included in the ranking. The researchers featured in the ranking work across around sixty countries. The United States leads the list, followed by China and the United Kingdom. Only around ninety of the selected researchers work in institutions in Spain.
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