Cantabria has taken a decisive step towards the future of public healthcare with the Digital Health Plan 2024-2028, presented at the conference ‘Cantabria’s Digital Health Plan: connecting innovation and people’. This meeting, held at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, brought together healthcare professionals, technology experts and managers to discuss how digitalisation can revolutionise healthcare. […]
The Psychiatry Service of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital has developed the ‘Centre of Excellence for Difficult-to-treat Depression and Suicide Prevention’ programme, reaffirming its commitment to the comprehensive care of these disorders due to their functional, social and economic impact, as well as the risk they pose to patients’ lives. This programme combines a […]
The Marqués de Valdecilla Research Institute (IDIVAL), in collaboration with EIT Health, held the Innovation Days (i-Days), a competition that challenges students to solve challenges in the field of innovation applied to health. The free and open event brought together more than 50 registered participants from diverse backgrounds with a common interest in technology and […]
On September 19-20, Paloma Lanza from the Health Economics Research Group and Rosa María Cazalilla, representing the IDIVAL working team led by Dr. David Cantarero and Dr. María Jesús Cabero, attended the progress meeting for the European Health4EUkids project. The Health4EUKids Joint Action began in December 2022 with the goal of transferring the experience of […]
IDIVAL (Marqués de Valdecilla Research Institute) is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Iridia Inc., a leading technology company based in California. This collaboration aims to bring to market an innovative DNA encapsulation technology developed by the esteemed research team led by Dr. Mónica López Fanarraga at IDIVAL. The technology has the potential to […]
Researchers from the Nanomedicine Group (IDIVAL-UC) have been recognised with the ‘V Prevencionar Award’ in the Research category, for their pioneering work in the study and training in Nanoprevention. This award highlights the work started in 2010 by the Nanomedicine Group, when its researchers began to explore applications of nanomaterials in various areas. Throughout their […]
The goals of JACARDI are to increase healthy life years, improve health equity, and reduce premature deaths in Europe. IDIVAL’s representation at this forum was led by Lorena Madrigal and Sara Barbero from the nursing research group, who presented the pilot projects they are working on as part of the initiative. The IDIVAL Health Research […]
The European Care4Diabetes project aims to improve the quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes by focusing on 4 key elements (nutrition, physical activity, relaxation and sleep). To this end, it is looking for volunteers to participate in the “C4D-Cuido Mi Diabetes” program, designed to improve the quality of life of these people. […]
The ‘Luchamos por la Vida’ association has presented the Valdecilla Health Research Institute (IDIVAL) with a donation of 30,000 euros, raised during its popular solidarity race, held in April in Los Corrales de Buelna. This initiative, which has been supporting the fight against cancer for more than 14 years, has earmarked the funds for two […]
Researchers from the IDIVAL nursing research group and the University of Cantabria together with the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Pneumology Service of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (HUMV), have published a new study in the journal Pathogens that addresses the relationship between biological biomarkers and the symptoms of persistent COVID, such as […]
