23/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Innovation, Projects, Success Stories

A project on an innovative tool for cancer surgery, selected in the 2025 CaixaImpulse call

The "la Caixa" Foundation has announced the results of the 2025 call for proposals for its CaixaImpulse program, through which it supports 31 biomedical projects from research centres, hospitals and universities in Spain and Portugal. A project coordinated by IIS IGTP led by Ana Piqueras (HUGTiP) has been selected in the call to continue with the development and implementation of a medical device to find and remove cancer cells more accurately during surgery.

19/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Innovation, Success Stories

The Innomed community visits the Immunoassay Technology Center, Werfen’s facilities in Lliçà d’Amunt

On 18 September, around thirty people involved in the Innomed program visited the Werfen facilities in Lliçà d'Amunt (the Immunoassay Technology Center). The meeting provided an opportunity to learn about the company's strategic areas and to establish contacts for exploring possible collaborations.

09/09/2025 - Projects, Research

The Department of Equality and Feminisms funds the Dona+ project, led by CEEISCAT-IGTP, to improve healthcare for women living with HIV

The Department of Equality and Feminisms of the Government of Catalonia has granted funding to a research project addressing gender inequalities and the health of women in vulnerable situations. The study is led by CEEISCAT, a research group of the IGTP.

08/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Institutional, Success Stories

IGTP publishes its 2024 Annual Report, a year of institutional recognition and advances in research

The report, available in its extended format and in summary versions, compiles the institution's activity during 2024 and reflects its growth and consolidation.

04/09/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Projects, Research, Success Stories

Germans Trias, the first centre in Spain to include a patient in an international study on the early treatment of aortic stenosis

The iCor team at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute is the first in Spain to enrol a patient in the international EASY-AS study, a clinical trial to evaluate whether intervening before the first symptoms of severe aortic stenosis appear can improve clinical outcomes.

26/08/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Conferences, Success Stories

Can Ruti welcomes patients and families from across Europe as part of the NF Academy 2025

The Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute welcomed patients and families from several European countries as part of the NF Academy 2025, an event organised by Neurofibromatosis Patients United together with the ACNEFI to train and empower young people living with NF1, NF2-SWN and SWN.

05/08/2025 - Research

New study expands and optimises 3D models to investigate colorectal cancer

The study provides a comprehensive analysis of 3D techniques to generate multicellular tumor spheroids of colorectal cancer.

28/07/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Projects, Research

A community-based action led by IGTP facilitates screening and access to treatment for viral hepatitis among migrant populations in Catalonia

On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day, IGTP presents the results of the HepBClink project, which has combined community educational actions on hepatitis B and C with screening and referral to treatment for migrants from Pakistan, Senegal and Romania. The project has involved the participation of the DxEpiPath group at IGTP and is part of the Tranversal Program CORE.

23/07/2025 - Projects, Research, Success Stories

A new European study with the participation of GCAT reveals that the combination of urban environmental factors increases asthma risk

Researchers from GCAT have taken part in a study on the effects of various environmental factors on the risk of developing asthma over the course of life. The study involved nearly 350,000 participants from European cohorts and used geolocation technologies and satellite imagery to estimate exposure to different environmental elements. The results show a clear link between urban conditions and an increased risk of asthma.

17/07/2025 - Campus Can Ruti, Research

New insights into heart scar tissue could improve treatment after heart attacks

A team of researchers from the IGTP has taken a step forward in understanding the complex structure of heart scars that form after a myocardial infarction. Using a porcine model, the group found an association between specific electrical patterns and structural characteristics of the scar, offering a new approach that may guide more targeted and effective treatments for arrhythmias. The results have been published in the journal Heart Rhythm.