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21/01/2026

The Combination of NT-proBNP and the Angiogenic Factor Ratio Improves the Prediction of Preeclampsia

The Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau) has led a multicenter study showing that incorporating the biomarker NT-proBNP, commonly used to assess cardiac function, significantly improves the abil...

19/01/2026

OptimAP, a New Tool to Improve Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Respiratory Infections

The Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has received funding from the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), co-funded by the European Union through European Funds, for the technological developm...

15/01/2026

Researchers Discover How a Respiratory Bacterium Obtains Essential Lipids From the Human Body and Targets Fat-Rich Tissues

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections—to obtain cholester...

13/01/2026

Three IR Sant Pau professionals receive intensification grants to boost their research activity

The Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (IR Sant Pau) has been awarded three research activity intensification grants in the 2025 call of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). This program is aimed at ...

12/01/2026

Sant Pau Research Institute Secures More Than €2.5 Million to Advance Two Independent Clinical Trials in Oncology and Stroke

The Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) will lead two new independent clinical trials in areas of high clinical complexity—hematologic oncology and acute ischemic stroke—after securing more ...