Information and results of the research supported and promoted by the Rafael del Pino Foundation in the field of science and technology.
Since the beginning of its activities, the Foundation has sponsored research which, within the framework of its foundational aims, may have a significant impact on Spanish society and contribute to improving the living conditions of our fellow citizens. For this reason, the Foundation pays particular attention to supporting research in the field of health, by sponsoring relevant research projects, especially in the fields of the fight against cancer and spinal cord injury.
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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