On the 5th of October an information session on “Health Financing Opportunities offered by the HORIZON 2020 program” will take place focusing on the opportunities planned for Social Challenge 1 (Teresa Corral, ISCIII) and on the legal and financial matter in H2020 (Gonzalo Arévalo, ISCIII). At present, Carlos III Health Institute is organizing this type of […]
The European Researchers’ Night will be held on Friday, September 29, in the afternoon from 4.30pm until midnight. This event takes place simultaneously around 30 countries and over 300 cities. For the fifth consecutive year, Santander joins this European event. Scientists from the University of Cantabria and associated institutions as the Biomedical Research Institute of […]
Due to the success of the first edition of Santander Biomedical Lectures, on Thursday 28th of September will start the II Program of Conferences Santander Biomedical Lectures organized by the Cantabrian Health Service, the University of Cantabria (UC), the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC) and Valdecilla Research Institute (IDIVAL). The opening session […]
The diagnosis of a joint prosthesis infection is based on a combination of clinical signs, laboratory tests, microbiological, histopathological, intraoperative and imaging studies. However, despite the availability of the various tests, none of them has absolute precision and the diagnosis of joint prosthetic infection remains a challenge. This relative difficulty in performing the diagnosis causes […]
The UC-IDIVAL nanomedicine group has been working for several years in the design of nanomaterials and synthetic nano-structures in diagnostic and medical therapy. Recently, in collaboration with the group of Professor Miguel Correa-Duarte of the CINBIO Health Institute of Vigo, this research team has developed and characterized synthetic structures of morphology and size similar to […]
With an expenditure that currently exceeds oncological and cerebrovascular pathology together, and an exponential increase in the number of cases, dementias are the main challenge facing our socio-health systems. Although we do not yet have treatments that modify the course of these diseases in the last decade, there has been much progress in its diagnosis. […]
Studies developed at the University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla help to detect early infection in these patients. Despite the significant progress made in recent years, lung transplantation is a solid organ transplant that has the shortest life expectancy. In part this fact is due to complications that occur in the first postoperative days of the […]
The Biomedical Research Institute Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL) organizes the course “Guidelines in Good Clinical Practice” directed to all the medical personnel of Cantabria that are interested in clinical investigation. The course will take place from the 2nd to 6th October. With this training activity, IDIVAL is intended to give to professionals all the necessary […]
