Science and Technology
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Rafael del Pino Chair in Neurosciences
The Rafael del Pino Foundation and the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital signed a collaboration agreement to create a Rafael del Pino Chair in Neuroscience dedicated to clinical research in the field of spinal cord injury, led by Dr Jesús Vaquero at the Puerta Hospital.
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Rafael del Pino Chair at the Foundation for Ophthalmological Research
Professor Rafael del Pino at the Foundation for Ophthalmological Research
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The beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The MIT Museum, sponsored by the Rafael del Pino Foundation, Obra Social de la Caixa and the Ramón Areces Foundation, hosted the exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the first international exhibition of the drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology.
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New cancer strategies: RAC1 and CAVEOLIN-1
The Foundation has collaborated with the Spanish Association Against Cancer by supporting the Association's Scientific Foundation through the awarding of a Rafael del Pino Cancer Research Grant. In 2018, the grant was awarded to Dr. Inmaculada Navarro, from the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), whose research
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Rafael del Pino Cancer Research Grant
The Rafael del Pino Foundation has signed a collaboration agreement with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) to support the Association's Scientific Foundation by awarding an Oncology Research Grant named after the Foundation's founder, Rafael del Pino y Moreno. The grant was awarded for the first time
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Criminal liability in the exercise of medical-health activities.
The book, “Criminal liability in the practice of medical and healthcare activities: criteria for defining criminal liability in cases of joint intervention by healthcare professionals” is the result of research of the same name carried out by Virxilio Rodríguez Vázquez, a law graduate from the University of Vigo. It is an analysis
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Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
The Rafael del Pino Foundation and the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid created this project with the aim of disseminating and implementing the protocol for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in adults. The research, led by Dr Emilio Bouza
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Circulating tumour cells in breast cancer at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona.
The research project “Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) in Breast Cancer”, supported by the Rafael del Pino Foundation and led first by Dr Josep Baselga and later by Dr Josep Tabernero at Vall d'Hebrón Hospital, is producing encouraging results after two years of work, which will lead to the development of a
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Objective therapy and audio-visual rehabilitation (TOYRA)
Objective therapy and audio-visual rehabilitation for spinal cord injury victims
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Rafael del Pino" Sports Complex
The Complex aims to facilitate access to sport for people with spinal cord injuries, including at the highest level.
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Epigenetic control of stem cell fate in plants
Throughout 2011, Dr Cristina Fernández Marco completed her research project entitled “Epigenetic control of stem cell fate in plants”, carried out at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York (USA). This research has demonstrated how chromatin remodelling factors interact with binding proteins to
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Role of the DGK enzyme in tumour transformation: tumour suppression or proto-oncogene
Dr Antonia Ávila Flores, a researcher at the National Centre for Biotechnology of the Spanish National Research Council and recipient of the Rafael del Pino cancer research grant, continued her research project entitled “The role of the DGK enzyme in tumour transformation: tumour suppression or proto-oncogene” throughout 2011. The use of specific inhibitors