23/11/2022 - Institutional news
This list is compiled by the analysis company Clarivate. It includes almost 7,000 researchers from around the world, selected as the most influential based on the number of times they have been cited in scientific publications published between 2011 and 2021.
18/11/2022 - General information
A team of researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute has created a model for predicting individual breast cancer risk that could be used to create personalised breast cancer screening strategies. The research, presented at the 13th European Breast Cancer Conference, could make breast screening programmes more effective and ultimately improve survival rates. It could also mean fewer people suffering from 'false positives' (when screening tests indicate cancer, but other tests show there is none) and 'overdiagnosis' (when people are diagnosed and treated for a cancer that is extremely slow growing and has not caused any problems in their lives).
16/11/2022 - Press release
A study led by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Centre (BBRC), a research unit from the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, and the University of Gothenburg, has compared the validity of nine biomarkers for the day-to-day diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in hospital centres. The work involved a cohort of patients from Hospital del Mar with various neurological pathologies. The researchers analysed the presence of nine variants of the Tau protein in blood samples from these people. Some of these blood markers are just as useful for detecting Alzheimer's as those measured in the reference test used, namely the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid obtained by lumbar puncture. Less invasive plasma biomarker determinations than those performed after a lumbar puncture may provide a tool for improving the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and determining which individuals should undergo further testing to confirm the diagnosis. The work has been published in the leading journal in this field, Alzheimer's & Dementia.
15/12/2022 - General information
The study, led by Dr. Xavier Nogués, has received one of the two biomedical research grants awarded by this organization, with a total endowment of 650,000 euros. The award ceremony took place in Madrid on December 14. A project to identify the factors that affect the risk of developing a state of fragility, headed by Dr. Xavier Nogués, director of the Clinical Translational Research Program at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and head of the Internal Medicine Department at the Hospital del Mar, has received one of the two grants for biomedical research awarded by the Francisco Soria Melguizo Foundation. These grants total 650,000 euros and were awarded on December 14 at a ceremony held at the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy in Madrid.
30/09/2022 - General information
An international collaborative study involving the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar has analyzed data from over 200,000 stroke patients and more than two million control individuals from five different ancestries. This study has associated 89 genes, of which 69 were previously unknown, with stroke and its subtypes. The research provides crucial insights to guide future biological investigations into the processes leading to this condition. Additionally, it reveals that some of these genes could potentially serve as targets for drugs to prevent or treat this disease. It also offers genetic prediction tools, improved and validated for the first time in non-European populations, to guide the development of new drugs.
07/11/2022 - General information
At the same time, the head of the Haematological Cytology section of the Pathology Service of the Hospital del Mar and researcher at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, is secretary of the board of directors of the Spanish Group for Haematological Cytology and also holds the same position in the Spanish Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes.
04/11/2022 - Institutional news
This list takes into account the most cited scientists in various disciplines, divided into 22 fields of knowledge. Stanford University, in the United States, has just published the update of the list that represents the 2% of the most cited scientists in various disciplines. The World's Top 2% Scientist, which includes more than 200,000 of the more than eight million science professionals considered to be active in the world, includes 22 professionals from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar in its two rankings, the one that takes into account their entire career and the one that focuses on the last few years.
03/11/2022 - General information
On 3 November, the 36 projects selected by the La Marató Foundation Board of Trustees, at the proposal of the Scientific Advisory Committee, were made public. Of these, four are led by researchers from Hospital del Mar and the IMIM, and the centres are participating in two others. La Marató de TV3 i Catalunya Ràdio has selected six projects that involve Hospital del Mar and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute. These will receive funding from the La Marató 2021 call for grants, which is dedicated to mental health. In total, 36 proposals from 81 research teams have been selected to receive a share of the more than 12.1 million euros raised in the latest edition of the programme. The IMIM-Hospital del Mar is one of the centres with the most projects selected from the 150 proposals submitted.
03/11/2022 - Press release
A study led by researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute links psychological trauma in childhood with an increased risk of developing some kind of mental disorder years later. This is the first study to analyse the relationship between psychological trauma and various mental pathologies at a transdiagnostic level. It examines fourteen already published reviews or meta-analyses, involving more than 90,000 participants. The study is published in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience and demonstrates the need to study the history of patients suffering from a mental disorder.
02/11/2022 - General information
The researcher of the Neuroscience Research Program at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute talks in this book with Montserrat Pedreira, PhD in Education and Early Childhood Education teacher, about how we communicate, what makes us curious and how we explore the world. Beatriz Fagundo, PhD in Neuroscience and researcher at the Neuroscience Research Program at IMIM-Hospital del Mar, is one of the authors of Diàlegs entre educació i neurociència, a book that explores the common ground between Neuroscience and Education through a dialogue between the researcher and Montserrat Pedreira, PhD in Education and Early Childhood and Primary Education teacher. The book is published by Eumo Editorial.
Més informació "Diàlegs entre educació i neurociència, the new book of Beatriz Fagundo"
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