Results of the Call

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  • DATA 2025

    The CaixaResearch Health call 2025 has awarded a total of 26.6 million euros to 34 biomedical research projects, 1 of which has been selected in collaboration with the Luzon Foundation; 3 in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), of Portugal's Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior and 2 in collaboration with the association Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF).

    Below is a set of data related to the CaixaResearch Health Research 2025 call for proposals and its resolution: the number of projects presented, pre-selected and selected by thematic area and project typology, as well as the territorial distribution of the budget of the selected projects.

    CAIXARESEARCH HEALTH CALL 2025

    Total budget

    €26,602,911.25

    Number of proposals submitted

    714

    Number of proposals evaluated

    638

    Number of proposals preselected

    91

    Number of projects selected

    34

    Success rate

    4,8 %

    Table 1. General information on the CaixaResearch Health Call 2025

     

    Figure 1. Budget distribution by territory

    Figure 1. Budget distribution by territory

    THEMATIC AREA

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    ELIGIBLE PROPOSALS

    PRESELECTED PROPOSALS

    SELECTED PROJECTS

    Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases

    107

    92

    86,0 %

    18

    16,8 %

    7

    6,5 %

    Neurosciences

    187

    169

    90,4 %

    19

    10,2 %

    8

    4,3 %

    Infectious diseases

    103

    93

    90,3 %

    18

    17,5 %

    6

    5,6 %

    Oncology

    166

    148

    89,2 %

    18

    10,8 %

    7

    4,2 %

    Enabling technologies

    151

    136

    90,1 %

    18

    11,9 %

    6

    4,0 %

    Total

    714

    638

    89,4 %

    91

    12,7 %

    34

    4,8 %

    Table 2. Percentage of preselected proposals and selected projects with respect to the number of proposals submitted in each thematic area

    PROJECT LEADER

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    ELIGIBLE PROPOSALS

    PRESELECTED PROPOSALS

    SELECTED PROJECTS

    SUCCESS RATE

    Women

    316

    278

    33

    8

    4,7 %

    Men

    395

    358

    58

    26

    5,0 %

    Others

    1

    1

    0

    0

    0,0 %

    Prefer not to say

    2

    1

    0

    0

    0,0 %

    Table 3. Results by gender

Evaluation process

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  • ELIGIBILITY PHASE

    • 714 proposals processed, of which:
       

      • All pass eligibility in form.

      • 76 do not pass content eligibility, after being flagged by IA and confirmed by 2 evaluators.

    • 638 proposals pass to the evaluation phase.

  • REMOTE EVALUATION PHASE

    • 284 experts, at least 3 per project, evaluated the proposals.

    • The assignment of the proposals to the evaluators was done through an AI-assisted matching process, taking into account the typology of the projects (basic, clinical or translational) and their keywords.

    • The final score for each project was standardised according to the Eligibility and evaluation guidelines of the call.

  • INTERVIEW PHASE

    • The 18 proposals with the highest scores in the remote evaluation in each thematic area have been shortlisted for the interview phase, except in the area of Neurosciences, where there have been 19 due to a technical tie.

    • Five selection committees have been constituted with between 7 and 10 experts chosen according to their scientific excellence and area of expertise.

  • LIST

Summary of selected projects

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CODE

PROJECT TITLE

PROJECT LEADER

HOST ORGANIZATION

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

THEMATIC AREA

CATEGORY

BUDGET (€)

HR25-00055

Advanced platform for targeting tumor-associated glycans

June Ereño

Asociación Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias-CIC bioGUNE

Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU); Asociación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biogipuzkoa; Universitat Rovira i Virgili; Fundação D. Anna Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud

Enabling Technologies

HR Consortium

998.670,00

HR25-00092

Safety, pharmacokynetics and short-term effects of oral CBD in hypoxic-ischemic newborns

José Martínez

Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Clínico San Carlos

N/A

Neuroscience

HR Single Organization

488.070,00

HR25-00177

Deciphering the contribution of common non-coding genetic variation to Autism Spectrum Disorders

Diogo Castro

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA); The University of Auckland

Neuroscience

HR Consortium

731.631,00

HR25-00225

Liquid-walled circuits for anticoagulant-free Extra-corporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Thomas Hermans

FUNDACIÓN IMDEA NANOCIENCIA

Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Gregorio Marañón

Enabling Technologies

HR Consortium

999.816,40

HR25-00235

Going Beyond Traditional Therapies to Tailor TGF-β and SMAD Regulation in Pediatric Rare Diseases.

Maria J. Macias

Fundació Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona)

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; Asociación Síndrome de Myhre España

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Consortium

771.800,00

HR25-00241

High-resolution profiling of HIV-1 reservoir and immune response for revealing HIV cure

Ezequiel Ruiz-Mateos

Fundación para la Gestión de la Investigación en Salud de Sevilla

Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili; Fundació Privada Institut de Recerca Sobre Immunopatologies-Caixa IRSICAIXA; Harvard University; Projecte dels Noms-Hispanosida; Adhara Asociación VIH/Sida

Infectious disease

HR Consortium

999.952,40

HR25-00303

Assembly rules of plasmid communities in bacteria: towards predicting antimicrobial resistance

Alvaro San Millan

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P.

Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

Infectious disease

HR Consortium

989.250,00

HR25-00331

Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of an anti-diabetogenic immunoregulatory cell pathway

Pere Santamaria

Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer

N/A

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Single Organization

500.000,00

HR25-00392

Loco-radiolysed treatment for glioblastoma self-enhanced chemotherapy and targeted RNA delivery

Bruno Sarmento

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

Universidade do Minho; University of Nottingham

Enabling Technologies

HR Consortium

989.290,00

HR25-00406

Human Vascularized Spinal Cord Organoid Device for Drug Discovery after traumatic injury

Zaida Alvarez

FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE BIOENGINYERIA DE CATALUNYA

Fundación Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos para a Investigación y la Integración; Universitat de Barcelona; Institut d´Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL); Fundación del Lesionado Medular

Enabling Technologies

HR Consortium

999.559,03

HR25-00415

Brain Integrative spatial data to generate new engineered 3D cerebral malaria models and treatments

Maria Bernabeu

Laboratorio Europeo de Biología Molecular (EMBL)

University of Glasgow

Infectious disease

HR Consortium

996.910,04

HR25-00427

The role of telomere transcription and TERRA in repairing broken telomeres in human cancer cells

Claus Maria Azzalin

FUNDACAO GIMM - GULBENKIAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE

N/A

Oncology

HR Single Organization

499.950,00

HR25-00453

VirusAwareScopes: Machine Learning-Driven Adaptive Microscopy for Long-Term Viral Infection Studies

Ricardo Henriques

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

N/A

Enabling Technologies

HR Single Organization

499.833,52

HR25-00456

Neural circuits underlying of the perception of other's emotions

Cristina Marquez

Universidade de Coimbra

CNRS - Centre National Recherche Scientifique

Neuroscience

HR Consortium

999.930,00

HR25-00467

Investigating Staphylococcus aureus Intracellular Lifestyle to Inform Antibiotic Selection

Ana Eulalio

Universidade de Coimbra

N/A

Infectious disease

HR Single Organization

473.902,70

HR25-00537

Early Risk Detection in Children with Genetic Predisposition to leukemia

ISIDRO SANCHEZ

FUNDACION DE INVESTIGACION DEL CANCER DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P.; Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil, E.P.E.; Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús; Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR); FUNDACION UNO ENTRE CIEN MIL

Oncology

HR Consortium

1.000.000,00

HR25-00556

A Next-Generation Vaccine for Parkinson's Disease

Salvador Ventura

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P.

Neuroscience

HR Consortium

628.288,00

HR25-00563

Innovative targeting of PAX5 in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Alejandro Vaquero

Fundació Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras

Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela; FUNDACIÓN INTERNACIONAL JOSEP CARRERAS

Oncology

HR Consortium

989.800,00

HR25-00585

Anthracycline Legacy in Bone Marrow and Long-Term Cardiovascular Risks in Cancer Survivors

Borja Ibañez

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)

Fundación del Sector Público Estatal Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Carlos III; Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario La Paz

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Consortium

999.500,00

HR25-00662

ARI-007, a CART anti-CD7 for patients with relapsed-refractory T cell acute lymphoid leukemia

Alvaro Urbano

Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer

Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu

Oncology

HR Consortium

996.024,00

HR25-00781

Therapeutic OligonUCleotides Activated by Nucleases: Targeted antibiotics for bacterial infections

Frank J. Hernandez

Universidad de Navarra - Universidad de Navarra

Medical University of Vienna

Infectious disease

HR Consortium

995.000,00

HR25-00804

Discovering moonlighting activities of antimicrobial resistance genes .

José Antonio Escudero

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

N/A

Infectious disease

HR Single Organization

499.570,00

HR25-00813

Improving gene therapy for life-threatening heart conditions

Juan Antonio Bernal

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)

N/A

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Single Organization

498.352,00

HR25-00814

Uncovering new mechanisms involved in the resolution of adipose tissue meta-inflammation

Josep A. Villena

Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR)

N/A

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Single Organization

499.700,00

HR25-00861

Advancing Precision Oncology through the Tumor Microenvironment Analysis

Alexandre Calon

Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM)

Universidad de Oviedo; Universidad de Granada; Consorcio para la explotación del Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico

Oncology

HR Consortium

996.750,00

HR25-00880

Tuning neurons by controlling brain cell metabolism using MIcroenvironment sensitive Nanosystems

Ana Paula Gomes Moreira Pêgo

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela; Tel Aviv University; PT.AVC - União de Sobreviventes, Familiares e Amigos; Fundacio Ictus

Enabling Technologies

HR Consortium

999.563,80

HR25-00886

Study of the Impact of the Tumor Microenvironment on Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma

Joan Seoane

Fundació privada Institut Investigació Oncologica Vall Hebron (VHIO)

N/A

Oncology

HR Single Organization

497.992,96

HR25-00908

Discovery and Multidimensional Characterization of Novel Microglia Regulators in ALS

Cintia Roodveldt

Universidad de Sevilla

Fundación Canaria Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Canarias; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P.

Neuroscience

HR Consortium

770.000,00

HR25-00930

KCNB1-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: towards personalized therapies

ANTONIO FERRER

Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús

Neuroscience

HR Consortium

797.525,00

HR25-00954

Targeting microexons and neural-related splicing programs to enhance in vitro beta cell maturation

Manuel Irimia

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Fundació Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG); Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Consortium

999.847,40

HR25-00965

Dopamine, impulsivity, and multi-scale, hierarchical control of behavior

Joseph Paton

Fundação D. Anna Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud

N/A

Neuroscience

HR Single Organization

497.860,00

HR25-01094

Metabolic organ crosstalk in cancer-induced cachexia as a novel therapeutic approach

Miguel López

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Fundació privada Institut Investigació Oncologica Vall Hebron (VHIO)

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

HR Consortium

999.300,00

HR25-01153

Lipid droplets as immunometabolic mediators in mitochondrial disease encephalopathy

Albert Quintana

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

N/A

Neuroscience

HR Single Organization

499.970,00

HR25-01192

Development of CAR T cell therapies against cancer-specific post-translational modifications

João Lacerda

FUNDACAO GIMM - GULBENKIAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE

N/A

Oncology

HR Single Organization

499.303,00