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 for the creation of a Rafael del Pino Chair of Neurosciences dedicated to clinical research in the field of spinal cord injury, led by Dr. Jesús Vaquero at the Puerta de Hierro 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, with the sponsorship of the Rafael del Pino Foundation, the Obra Social de la Caixa and the Ramón Areces Foundation hosted, in 2018, the exhibition The beautiful brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the first international exhibition of the drawings of the Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize 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 with a Rafael del Pino Oncology Research Grant. In 2018, the holder of the grant was 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 Scientific Foundation of this Association through the endowment of an Oncology Research Grant, named after the Founder, Rafael del Pino y Moreno. The grant was awarded for the first time in...
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Criminal liability in the exercise of medical-health activities.
The book, "Responsabilidad penal en el ejercicio de actividades médico-sanitarias: criterios para delimitar la responsabilidad penal en supuestos de intervención conjunta de los profesionales sanitarios" is the result of the research of the same name carried out by Virxilio Rodríguez Vázquez, a graduate in Law from the University of Vigo. It is an analysis of the...
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Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
The Rafael del Pino Foundation and the Foundation for Biomedical Research 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 (CTC) in breast cancer", supported by the Rafael del Pino Foundation and directed, first by Dr. Josep Baselga, and later by Dr. Josep Tabernero at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital, is producing, after two years of work, encouraging results that will lead to the development of a new cancer treatment....