The Board of IDIVAL at the meeting on 23rd June has appointed Professor Benedicto Crespo Facorro Scientific Director of IDIVAL. The appointment had already been announced a few weeks ago and in this way compliance with the statutes of IDIVAL where is made explicit the role of this figure in the Institute as the highest […]
Professionals of the radiotherapy oncology service of the Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital in collaboration with professionals of thePhotonics Engineering Group from the University of Cantabria develop a system to detect the position and depth of catheters in brachytherapy. This group has applied for a European patent in March 2017. Brachytherapy is a medical technique […]
The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness published last June 13 in the BOE the call for granting R&D projects corresponding to the State Program of Research and Technique of Excellence and the Program of Research oriented to the challenges of society. – R&D PROJECTS 2017. Call for funding three or four year projects, without […]
Donating organs after cardiac arrest accounts for about 30% of organ donations in most countries. However, ischemic injury, which characterizes cardiac arrest and poor perfusion of organs during this period leads to the loss of many organs from this type of donors.Although the evidence remains limited, it appears that regional normothermic perfusion using ECMO devices […]
The last conference of Santander Biomedical Lectures Program organized by IDIVAL, the University of Cantabria and the IBBTEC will take place on the 29th of June. The conference will be given by Dr. Christian Giske from Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden and the session will focus on “Dissemination of resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli – […]
HLA antigen panel reactive panel calculators allow the possibility of finding a compatible donor in highly sensitized patients on waiting list. These patients spend prolonged periods of time on the compatible donor waiting list. The design of these calculators, together with the optimization of the study of the anti-HLA antibody profile with the new solid-phase […]
