Institutional Highlights

January

The Government promotes the new Vall d’Hebron research building

View the news in the media El Periódico

The Clinical Research Committee is created with the aim of promoting research at the Hospital

February

11F:La igualtat de gènere en la recerca i al VHIR

Vall d’Hebron obtains more than €1 million in profit from the use of a patent licence

View the news in the media Diari Ara

Vall d’Hebron receives the clinical expertise certification for Immune Minority Diseases, in the field of primary immunodeficiencies

March

Dr. Joan X Comella named new member of CataloniaBio & HealthTech

Dr. Juan Morote wins the Professors Salvador and Josep Maria Gil-Vernet Prizes of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia

Dr Ricard Ferrer, head of the Shock, Organic Dysfunction and Resuscitation Research Group leads an intensive care expert commission created in the context of COVID-19

April

Dr. Marta Martínez Vicente obtains a grant from the BBVA Foundation for Parkinson’s research

View the news in the media Expansión

Two VHIR research projects in Covid-19 will receive funding from the Department of Health

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May

The NARTIC project, from the Translational Research in Child and Adolescent Cancer group, has been selected by the Barcelona Activa Pre-acceleration Program

IRISCAT starts a series of research webinars focused on COVID-19

September

Dr. María José Buzón receives a “la Caixa” Health Research grant

Three researchers at VHIR receive a grant from the Spanish Association Against Cancer

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega visits Vall d’Hebron to learn about the experience of the Science by Women program of the Fundación Mujeres por África, which she chairs

October

Dr. Mar Tintoré, named Vice-President of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS)

VHIR, highlighted center in the BioRegion of Catalonia Outlook 2020

Vall d’Hebron participates in a european initiative that amplifies the patient voice to improve health care outcomes

Vall d’Hebron officially becomes a member of a strategic alliance formed by the most relevant university hospitals in Europe

View the news in the media ABC

November

Dr. Joaquín Burgos, awarded with the ICS Young Researcher Award 2020

View the news in the media Infosalus

Dr. Ana Diez and Dr. Oriol Roca awarded in the 2020 Mutual Medical Research Awards

View the news in the media Redacción Médica

Six projects on rare diseases at VHIR receive more than €700,000 from La Marató 2019

View the news in the media CCMA

December

Dr. Mar Hernández receives the Albus Award from Grifols for a project on albumin and Alzheimer’s

14th Scientific Conference and 24th Vall d’Hebron Annual Conference

”la Caixa” Foundation awards 1.5 million euros to social research of excellence

View the news in the media Via Empresa

New Vall d’Hebron research building work begins

View the news in the media El Periódico

Two researchers at Vall d’Hebron awarded at the 2020 Multiple Sclerosis Solidarity Awards

View the news in the media La Vanguardia

Presentation of the New Vall d’Hebron 2021-2025 Strategic Research Plan

The AECC Scientific Foundation provides a grant to Dr. Marco Inzitari for the study of cancer in the elderly