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Researchers discover a new promising strategy to halt the progression of liver fibrosis

The new work, published in the journal Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, has been led by Manuel Vázquez Carrera, head of the research group Pharmacological Targets in Inflammation and Metabolic Diseases at the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute (IRSJD) and the Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM) at the University of Barcelona.

  1. Research in Pitt-Hopkins at Sant Joan de Déu, a neurodevelopmental disorder

    Dr. Judith Armstrong initiates a project to understand why patients with mutations in different genes present the same clinical features as Rett syndrome.

  2. International travel affects gut microbiota

    A collaborative study between the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD) and the Institut d'Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí (I3PT) demonstrates that traveling and being exposed to new people, traditions, cultures, and unfamiliar foods can change gut microbiota and its diversity.

  1. A Predictive Tool for Personalizing Psychosis Treatment

    Dr. Susana Ochoa from the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute · Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu leads a European project to offer personalized metacognitive training for people with psychosis by developing a learning algorithm.

  2. A potential therapeutic target has been discovered for the rare metabolic disease PMM2-CDG

    The collaboration of three research groups has made it possible to identify cellular and molecular pathways affected in patients with PMM2-CDG through the development of a transcriptomic data analysis technology using patient-derived fibroblasts.

  3. New discoveries about the EWS-FLI oncogene involved in the development of Ewing's tumor

    Researchers from IRSJD · SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital and IRB Barcelona have successfully developed Drosophila models expressing the EWS-FLI oncogene at varying levels, overcoming previous toxicity challenges and enabling detailed study of Ewing sarcoma's oncogenic pathways.

  4. Preg-MEDAS questionnaire: questions for a healthier pregnancy

    A study conducted by IRSJD and IDIBAPS introduces the new preg-MEDAS questionnaire, which measures the positive impact of the Mediterranean diet on pregnant women. The study demonstrated that women following the Mediterranean diet significantly reduced their blood pressure.

  5. Automated learning app improves accessibility to medulloblastoma classification

    A team from the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, has developed an artificial intelligence-based application to make the classification of medulloblastoma subgroups more accessible, less costly, and faster

  6. The first living pediatric patients brain tissue laboratory in Europe

    King's College London and Sant Joan de Déu have formalized an agreement to develop a new living pediatric patients brain pediatric tissue laboratory. The laboratory is set to open at the beginning of 2025 and will be led by Dr. Óscar Marín, a neuroscience expert.