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IDIVAL rewards Dr Luis Rojas Marcos for his research career

28 de August de 2020

IDIVAL presents the award for his research career to Dr. Luis Rojas Marcos and the award for health cooperation for development to Dr. Pedro Cavadas. The award ceremony will take place during the XIII Inter-regional Meeting on Legal Protection of the Patient organized by the University Menéndez Pelayo International and directed by Jorge Tomillo, Professor […]

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Valdecilla participates in an international study investigating a vaccine against Coronavirus

The Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital has been one of the 3 Spanish hospitals selected to participate in an international study investigating a vaccine, Ad26COVS, against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is responsible for the COVID-19 disease. Thanks to the collaboration of healthy volunteers, the aim is to evaluate the immune response to different doses of […]

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Seroprevalence against COVID-19 in pregnant women and newborns

24 de August de 2020

The ISCIII through the extraordinary call for research projects on SARS-COV-2 and the Covid-19 disease has financed the project “Seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant women and newborns” directed by Dr. Cabero -Head of the Pediatrics Service- and Dr. Llorca -Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health-. This project aims to know the impact that COVID-19 […]

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New devices for the surgical treatment of glioblastoma

20 de August de 2020

The multidisciplinary work team formed by the group of Cell Signaling and Therapeutic Targets in Cancer of IDIVAL; the Optics group of the University of Cantabria (UC) and the Neurosurgery service of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV); Together with the company Fotoglass, specialized in biomedical optics, a spin off of UC, they have […]

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Melatonin as a radio-sensitizer in cancer

18 de August de 2020

The research group "Melatonin and Breast Cancer" of IDIVAL has recently published in the journal Biomedicines, with impact factor Q1, the article "Melatonin as a Radio-Sensitizer in Cancer". Radiotherapy is one of the treatments of choice in many types of cancer. Adjuvant treatments to radiotherapy try, on one hand, to enhance the response of tumor […]

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Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships La Caixa

11 de August de 2020

The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is aimed at hiring excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).  The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is divided into two different frames: Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Incoming: 30 postdoctoral fellowships […]

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Open the pre-registration Master in Health Services Management

10 de August de 2020

The Master and Expert in Direction and Management of Health Services (MADGS) of the University of Cantabria organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Government of Cantabria opens the pre-registration period. The thirteenth edition of the Master and the Expert program in Direction and Management of Health Services of the University of […]

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XIII Inter-regional Meeting on legal protection of the patient bioethical and legal challenges of COVID-19

This edition of the Inter-Autonomous Meeting on the Legal Protection of the Patient organized for thirteen years by the Menéndez Pelayo International University must necessarily be different from previous editions. The situation of exceptionality derived from the Covid-19 requires modulating this year one of the consolidated seminars in the Spanish panorama in the matter of […]

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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hiperostosis

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) or Forestier-Rotés-Querol disease is a rheumatic process that mainly affects the spine and is characterized by the tendency to ossification of ligamentous structures, tendons and capsules articular. A research paper has recently been published in the prestigious journal Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, which analyzes the values ​​of the “Trabecular […]

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Recommendations in Reconstructive Urology during COVID-19

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, activity in Hospital services has been altered. In the case of Urology Units, they have had to adapt to the new context without being guidelines for action to follow. The Spanish Archives of Urology magazine has published the monograph “Recommendations for action in a covid-19 pandemic ”in order […]

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