11/11/2021 - General information
The AECC has awarded 186 grants in 2021, totalling approximately 20 million euros. Two of these will benefit IMIM researchers, Teresa Lobo, who is receiving a postdoctoral grant, and Arnau Sabater, who has been able to participate in the laboratory internship programme. The Spanish Association Against Cancer awarded its 2021 research grants at a ceremony held on 11 November at its headquarters in Barcelona. In total, 186 projects and nearly 20 million euros have been allocated with the aim of continuing progress into cancer research, focusing on the patient and further increasing cancer survival. In this edition, two researchers linked to the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) will benefit from the grants.
According to a study by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and the Germans Trias i Pujol Institute of Health Sciences published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, driving after drinking alcohol mixed with energy drinks can give the driver a false sense of security, thus increasing the chances of driving while intoxicated and suffering an accident Due to their high caffeine content, energy drinks reduce the sedative effect of alcohol, despite not affecting its negative effects on driving ability Moreover, combining the two drinks increases blood concentrations of alcohol and caffeine. Researchers warn that these effects may favour alcohol intoxication in people with a lower tolerance to these drinks
Més informació "Mixing energy drinks with alcohol can increase the risk of a traffic accident"
Two projects by staff from the Hospital del Mar and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have been awarded funding by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology as part of its 2021 grants. The awards were presented on 13 October in Madrid and represent a new record for the organisation, with 44 scholarships and grants awarded with an endowment of nearly 1.4 million euros. All the money is earmarked for research and the training of medical professionals to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients.
10/11/2021 - Institutional news
Five groups led by IMIM and Hospital del Mar professionals have been accepted as part of the new RICORS research networks. These Redes de Investigación Cooperativa Orientadas a Resultados en Salud, or Networks of Cooperative Research oriented to Health Results in English, are decided by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III and include funding, which in this case will be over €1.1 million. One of these groups will actually coordinate one of the RICORS networks. The aim of these new bodies is to promote research oriented towards health results by coordinating the research activity within the Spanish National Health System around a defined and focused research objective that is specifically useful for the general public, as well as structuring R&D&I in research groups from different Autonomous Communities, guiding their research activity towards common goals that enable results to be achieved which can then be transferred to the Spanish populace.
18/10/2021 - General information
These new grants are linked to the Spanish Government's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and are co-financed by the European Union's Next-Generation funds. Four projects involving the IMIM will benefit. Four research projects led by or involving researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) will receive funding from the State Research Agency (Agència Estatal d'Investigació), as part of the aid promoted in Spanish and European plans linked to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In total of, each project will receive just over 790,000 euros from these funds.
09/11/2021 - Press release
A multicentre study published in the journal Biomedicines led by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute reveals that bronchiectasis affects women less severely than it does men. This is a highly prevalent lung disease that causes abundant accumulation of secretions in the lungs The study analysed data from more than 2,000 patients from the Spanish Computerised Registry of Patients with Bronchiectasis (RIBRON). A second study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, determines the role of eosinophils, immune system cells, as predictors of severity in this type of patient
05/11/2021 - General information
A study led by the Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit, part of the Surgery Service at Hospital del Mar, has received two research grants, one from the Catalan Society of Surgery during the inaugural ceremony of the academic year on 15 October; and another from the Spanish Association of Coloproctology, during the organisation's conference, held from 20 to 22 October. The funding goes towards a multicentre project entitled 'Determining proangiogenic proteins in serum as a prognostic factor for recurrence after curative colon cancer surgery', led by Dr. Marta Pascual, head of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit, and Dr. Clara Téllez, a resident in the same department, in collaboration with Dr. Xavier Mayol, a researcher in the Cancer Research Programme at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar).
The Catalan Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SCMIMC) has awarded one of its pre-doctoral grants to Dr. Elena Sendra, a consultant in Hospital del Mar's Infectious Diseases Service. This is a biannual grant that will allow her to develop her doctoral thesis project. The grant was awarded during the XXX Meeting of the society, held on 15th and 16th October in Sitges, Garraf.
26/10/2021 - Press release
The risk of death from any cause increases by 30% for each 10 beat per minute increase above 70 beats per minute The study, led by researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, analysed data from more than 10,000 participants in the REGICOR study to establish the relationship between heart rate and the risk of cardiovascular disease and death It is a simple measurement indicator, which also provides information on the risk of cardiovascular disease. The work has been published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Més informació "A higher heart rate is associated with a greater risk of death"
21/10/2021 - General information
The Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) in its XVII edition has awarded the "Prize for research by young researchers. Edition 2021: Miguel Carrasco" to Natàlia Soldevila-Domènech, predoctoral researcher of the Integrative Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience research group at IMIM, for the project "Analysis of trajectories of cognition evaluated in a continuous manner with cognitive training tasks in older adults at risk of Alzheimer 's disease". The work aims to evaluate the feasibility, validity and reliability of a measure of cognition obtained from the performance on self?administered computerized cognitive training tasks, and to identify and characterize subgroups of elderly individuals following a similar cognitive trajectory during the course of a preventive intervention for cognitive decline (PENSA Study).
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