Health Research Call for Proposals

Selected projects 2019

Cardiovascular diseases

  • Drugs against vascular malformations

    Mariona Graupera

  • New drugs to prevent aneurysm in a minority disease

    Juan Miguel Redondo Moya

  • Deciphering the molecular basis of sudden death

    José Jalife

  • The influence of the brain on intestinal bacteria

    Marc Claret Carles

Infectious diseases

  • Bacterial engineering for the treatment of pneumonia

    Luis Serrano Pubul

  • New therapeutic strategy against the Ebola virus

    Carmen Gil

  • How to stop malaria transmission

    Alfred Cortés Closas

  • Towards a better understanding of the front line of defenses

    Marc Veldhoen

  • How to prevent the outbreaks of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika in Spain

    Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

  • New strategies to combat sepsis

    Miguel Che Parreira Soares

    Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

NEUROSCIENCE

  • The journey to the brain looking for therapy against obesity

    Miguel Antonio López Pérez

  • Movie scenes to treat stroke patients

    Blanca Fuentes Gimeno

  • Understanding the neural basis of dyslexia

    Manuel Francisco Carreiras Valiña

  • Understanding tau protein to slowdown the progression of neurodegenerative diseases

    José Antonio del Río Fernández

  • Pregnancy changes the brain of mothers

    Oscar Vilarroya Oliver

  • To cure blindness with light

    Pau Gorostiza Langa

  • Retinal prosthesis to restore vision

    José Antonio Garrido Ariza

  • A new therapy to regenerate the spinal cord

    Leonor Saúde

    Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  • The potential of the hormone that regulates appetite to treat ALS patients

    Carmen María Fernández-Martos

    Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundación Luzón

Oncology

  • The brake on colorectal cancer metastasis

    Eduard Batlle

  • New perspective for liver cancer

    Raúl Méndez

  • Deciphering the communication of tumor cells to fight cancer

    María Abad

  • The fight against cancer begins at the tip of the chromosomes

    María A. Blasco

  • Nanopharmaceuticals to fight pancreatic cancer

    María Jesús Vicent Docón

  • Transplantation of defenses to fight cancer

    Bruno Miguel de Carvalho Silva-Santos

    Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia