At the IGTP TODAY
A study led by researchers from IGTP and BST has developed and validated a manufacturing platform for extracellular vesicles that meets pharmaceutical quality requirements, marking a key step towards their clinical application
An IGTP study, published in Movement Disorders, highlights the potential of platelets for investigating biomarkers of Parkinson's disease progression. Some of the changes were also observed in an independent cohort of 15 patients with early-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease.
A clinical trial involving 240 adolescents aged 12 to 17 has shown that HIPRA's COVID-19 vaccine, BIMERVAX®, administered as a booster dose, induces a broad immune response against different SARS-CoV-2 variants, comparable to that observed in adults and sustained for at least one year. The study, published in Pediatrics, was led by IrsiCaixa, IGTP, VHIR and HIPRA as part of the European RBDCOV project.
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A European study involving GCAT-IGTP has identified an association between greater exposure to air pollution, particularly PM10 particles, greater temperature variability and higher blood glucose levels in people without diabetes. The findings highlight the importance of studying environmental factors together and improving air quality in the context of climate change.
A project led by Federico Fondelli, researcher at the IGTP, has been selected in the 2026 CaixaImpulse Health Innovation call promoted by the "la Caixa" Foundation. The project will receive €49,000 to advance the development of a new cell therapy strategy aimed at specifically restoring the immune system's tolerance to myelin in people with multiple sclerosis.
The CMCiB, strategic project of IGTP, continues to strengthen its capacity to support biomedical research with the opening of a new rodent housing facility and the upgrading of part of its animal housing systems. This initiative increases the centre's capacity to support researchers, strengthens safety and biocontainment, improves animal welfare and provides more efficient working environments for health research projects.
An article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology presents this European resource, which brings together 24 cohorts from eight countries and multinational studies, with data from more than 20 million participants.
The first evidence that night work and chronic insomnia may increase the risk of developing long COVID comes from a new study led by ISGlobal, a centre supported by "la Caixa" Foundation, in collaboration with the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), through the GCATlGenomes for Life cohort.
Researchers from IGTP, UPC, IrsiCaixa and CIBEREHD have developed the Cartesian Distance-Based Gene Expression (CDBGE) approach, a novel algorithm designed to identify the genes that best distinguish between different biological conditions.
The study, published in Nature Communications, evaluates ibuprofen for the first time in patients with tuberculosis as an adjunctive therapy aimed at modulating the host inflammatory response. The results did not show an improvement in the main clinical or microbiological outcomes, but they did reveal biological changes consistent with reduced inflammation, supporting further investigation of this approach in larger, controlled trials.
