There are no projects in the garbage can.
Two research projects will be carried out at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville; another two at the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba; and the fifth at the ibs.GRANADA Biomedical Research Institute.
The studies will focus on transplants (two of them), child and adolescent mental health, breast cancer and rare diseases.
In addition, a sixth Andalusian team, from the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba, will take part in a collaborative study on lung transplants, which will be led by the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid and will involve research groups from across Spain.
The Andalusian research projects form part of the 21 new research projects that the Mutua Madrileña Foundation will support this year throughout Spain.
Fundación Mutua Madrileña has today awarded its 23rd Medical Research Grants, totalling 2.3 million euros, to 21 new scientific projects to be carried out in hospitals across Spain. Among these are five research projects to be led by centres in Seville, Córdoba and Granada, which will receive a total of over 550,000 euros.
Two of the projects will be carried out at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital in Seville, in the fields of mental health and transplants; another two at the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, focusing on transplants and breast cancer; and the fifth, awarded to the ibs Institute for Bio-Health Research. GRANADA, will be carried out at the facilities of the Pfizer-University of Granada-Regional Government of Andalusia Centre for Genomics and Cancer Research (GENYO) in the field of rare diseases.
Monitoring a rare disease
At ibs.GRANADA, within the field of rare diseases, researcher Luis Javier Martínez González – a lecturer at the University of Granada and a researcher at GENYO and ibs. GRANADA, will integrate multi-omic technology into liquid biopsy for the early detection of tumours in paediatric patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a rare hereditary condition that greatly increases the risk of developing various types of cancer at an earlier age than usual, even during childhood or adolescence. Furthermore, people with this condition may develop more than one type of cancer over the course of their lives.
The project brings together a multidisciplinary team of 12 researchers, who are also affiliated with the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, the Medina Foundation, Pablo de Olavide University and the University of Seville, with the aim of improving the monitoring of children and adolescents with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, who currently require regular check-ups using MRI scans and other tests. “We hope to identify biomarkers that can be detected in a blood test and that provide an early warning of the possible development of a tumour, even before it is visible on imaging tests,” explains the researcher.
In addition, a sixth Andalusian team, from the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, will take part in a collaborative project on lung transplantation to be led by the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid.
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