Institut de Recerca Sant Pau - Centre CERCA
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has recently published the updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine used to assess the degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients. The results were also presented in parallel at the Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM LIVES 2025), held in Munich, in a featured session on current topics broadcast live.
The Francesc Cambó Hall at Sant Pau was filled with people and laughter during ImproCiencia: Aging with a Sense of Humor, an event that brought together biomedical research and improvisational theater to address key questions about health and aging in a lively and engaging way.
A team from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has discovered that basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) can reverse the functional impairments of adipose tissue–derived stem cells in people with type 2 diabetes. This restores their ability to proliferate, migrate, and form new blood vessels.
The latest edition of La Marató de 3Cat, dedicated to research on respiratory diseases, raised 10 million euros to support 36 projects led by 60 research teams across Catalonia. Respiratory diseases affect more than two million people in the region, represent the second leading cause of hospital admission and the third leading cause of death, and are one of today’s major public health challenges.
The Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) is incorporating Dr. Manel Esteller, an ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) researcher and one of the world’s most renowned scientists in the fields of epigenetics and oncology, to lead a new research group.
