The Board of Trustees of the Marqués de Valdecilla Research Institute (IDIVAL) has approved the public call for the selection of the position of scientific director, vacant in its staff. The bases of this call will be published soon in the Official Gazette of Cantabria (BOC). Among the requirements that candidates must meet are those […]
The rheumatology service of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, in collaboration with the dermatology, internal medicine and statistical service, has carried out a cross-sectional study on psoriatic arthritis in collaboration with the University Hospital of the Canary Islands. This study has been published in The Journal of Rheumatology. The addition of carotid ultrasound in […]
The XI National Biobank Congress, which will be held on November 19 and 20 at the Santemar Hotel in Santander presents its corporate image. The National Biobank Congress is held annually and this year 2020 is held in the city of Santander. The Congress is being organized by the Valdecilla Biobank, the National Biobank Network […]
The IDIVAL Psychiatry group has published the article “Dissecting the functional outcomes of first episode schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a 10-year follow-up study in the PAFIP cohort” in the journal Psychological Medicine. The objective of the study was to assess the functionality of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder 10 years after having had […]
Next Thursday, January 30, the next conference of the fourth edition of the Santander Biomedical Lectures program organized by IDIVAL, the University of Cantabria and the IBBTEC given by Dr. Xavier Bossuyt with the title “Laboratory evaluation of primary immunodeficiency” will take place. Dr. Bossuyt will describe the different approaches from the Immunology laboratory when […]
The Interlibrary Loan or Document Obtaining Service (SOD) is a basic form of cooperation between libraries that allows to complement the own fund with that of other libraries. That all libraries have everything subscribed is, in addition to unnecessary, economically unsustainable. The current logic, which the Marquise de Pelayo Library follows, is that all libraries […]
Project PI19/01580 “New immunotherapies for bladder cancer” directed by Dr. Carmen Álvarez Domínguez has been funded by the Carlos III Health Institute in the 2019 Call for Strategic Health Action 2017-2020, Health Research Projects for an amount of € 105,270. Bladder cancer is the fifth most common cancer with a higher prevalence in men than […]
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute neuropathic ascending paralysis in developed countries. Members of the IDIVAL Group of Neurodegenerative Diseases have carried out two studies on this syndrome. In the first study, published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica “A unicenter, prospective study of Guillain ‐ Barré syndrome in Spain” the clinical characteristics, […]
The Valdecilla Health Research Institute Foundation (IDIVAL) is advancing in the knowledge of the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease in the Spanish population through the promotion of research projects that the DEGESCO (Dementia Genetic Spanish Consortium) consortium has been developing in the last years. This consortium, founded in 2013 by doctors Pascual Sánchez-Juan, of the […]
The arrival of direct antiviral agents against hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 2014 was a before and after in the treatment of the disease. However, its high price made accurate estimates about the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) essential to guide health policies. For this reason, at the end of 2015 the digestive service […]
