EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants
Our PhD students, Paula Villatoro and Laia Llucià Carol, have been awarded EMBO Scientific Exchange Grants to support their research stays in the UK.Paula is conducting a 3 months research stay at the Prof. Sarah Teichmann group at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute...
Jara Cárcel, Awarded Prestigious Fellowship at the Paris Brain Institute
Dr. Jara Cárcel has been recognized with a prestigious international fellowship that will take her to the Paris Brain Institute, one of the leading neuroscience research centers in Europe. Jara is pioneering innovative research in the fight against stroke, one of...
The CADASIMUS Project Receives Seed Funding from the RICORS-ICTUS Network
Paula Villatoro, researcher at IR Sant Pau and member of the Strokemics group, is co-principal investigator of CADASIMUS, a collaborative project recently awarded seed funding by the RICORS-ICTUS network. The project aims to explore a repurposed drug as a potential...
PhD Students Paula Boldo and Laia Mariné present their research at the XV Chromatin and Epigenetics Symposium
PhD candidates Paula Boldo and Laia Mariné participated in the XV Chromatin and Epigenetics Symposium, organized by the Chromatin and Epigenetics Section of the Catalan Society of Biology (SCB). This event brought together leading experts in the fields of...
New Team Member Joins the Stroke Pharmacogenomics and Genetics Research Group
We are pleased to welcome Eric as the newest member of the Stroke Pharmacogenomics and Genetics Research Group. Eric holds a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he completed his final project on yeast genome modification...
Annual Neurology Retreat at Hospital de Sant Pau
Today, the Neurology Service of Hospital de Sant Pau has held its Annual Retreat, an event that has together professionals from across the department to reflect on achievements from 2024 and discuss perspectives for the coming year. The retreat has featured an...
Methodological Innovations : Learning from Dr. Beatrice Borsari
We were honored to welcome Dr. Beatrice Borsari, a distinguished researcher from Yale University, who visited us to present her latest groundbreaking work on psychiatric disorders and the innovative use of wearable technologies in research. Dr. Borsari's study...
Understanding Stroke Risks: A Talk by Cristina Gallego in Centre Civic Navas
Organized in collaboration with the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) – FECYT at the Research Institute of the Hospital de Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau), we recently hosted an engaging talk led by Dr. Cristina Gallego, our postdoctoral researcher. In her...
Showcasing Our Stroke Risk AI Collaboration on RTVE’s La Aventura del Saber
We were thrilled to participate in the morning program La Aventura del Saber on La 2 of RTVE, where we had the opportunity to present our collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). During the program, we highlighted the vital role of the BSC in...
October 29: World Stroke Day – A Global Call to Advance Stroke Research
On World Stroke Day, our research group at the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) is proud to announce groundbreaking findings from two recent studies identifying new chromosomal regions associated with cerebrovascular risk. These studies, conducted in...
