VALORA: ASSESSMENT OF MOTOR FUNCTION WITH PROVEN FREE ACCESS TOOLS
Dr Mariano Luis Alcañiz Raya
Institut d'Investigació i Innovació en Bioenginyeria - Universitat Politècnica de València
Scientific talent responds to society for the results obtained with the donations made to La Marató
On 18 December 2016 La Marató celebrated 25 years with a programme dedicated to strokes and traumatic spinal cord and brain injury. Catalunya Ràdio and TV3 had 21 hours of intensive live broadcasting, led by Ricard Ustrell and the duo of Helena Garcia Melero and Ramon Pellicer respectively. The purpose was to raise awareness and gather resources to boost research into diseases that have a drastic impact on the quality and expectation of life of the people who live with them.
This year once again, all of our society turned out for this charity project, taking part in a number of different ways: witnesses, health professionals, artistes and well-known faces from culture and sport, social associations, businesses, donors, schools – everyone was involved in this edition, which reached a final scoreboard of €11.384.148
With these funds, the Fundació La Marató de TV3 not only raised public awareness but also financed 37 projects in the field of strokes and traumatic spinal cord and brain injury. A total of 70* research teams received grants to advance in methods for prevention and diagnosis, designing more efficient treatments, and improving the prognosis of lesions that cause serious physical, cognitive and psychological disabilities.
These were the highest-scoring proposals among the 100 that were presented in response to the call. An international process of evaluation by 47 experts, co-ordinated by the Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research (AQUAS), determined the viability of the projects from their quality, methodology, scientific, health and social relevance, and also their innovative value.
Now, the Foundation is presenting the great breakthroughs that have been achieved thanks to the teamwork of the investigators who have run these 37 projects, results that will mean more years and greater quality of life for the people and their families who live with these diseases.
This is the moment for returning to society the millions of hopes and gestures of support that were placed in that Marató, which now, thanks to the talent and dedication of the scientists, have been converted into health benefits.
Thank you to everyone for making this possible!
* The funds were awarded to 70 research teams. While the projects were running Dr Josep Puig Alcántara and Dr David Sánchez Molina changed some of their subprojects.
VALORA: ASSESSMENT OF MOTOR FUNCTION WITH PROVEN FREE ACCESS TOOLS
Dr Mariano Luis Alcañiz Raya
Institut d'Investigació i Innovació en Bioenginyeria - Universitat Politècnica de València
STUDY OF ACUTE PHASE ICTUS MECHANISMS THAT FAVOUR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPILEPSY
Dr José Álvarez Sabín
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Laia Grau López
Institut d'Investigació Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - IIHGTP
DAMAGE TO THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER IN SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE: CLINICAL RELEVANCE, ROLE OF HYPERGLYCAEMIA AND EFFECT OF POTENTIATION OF ENDOGENOUS ANTIOXIDANT MECHANISMS. A TRANSLATIONAL STUDY
Dr Sergio Amaro Delgado
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic - IDIBAPS
Dr Carles Justicia Mercader
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona - CSIC
Dr Pedro Ramos Cabrer
Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias - CIC bioGune Bizkaia
MULTIDISCIPLINARY FOCUS FOR MODULATION OF NEUROIMMUNE CROSSTALK ASSOCIATED WITH PATHOLOGICAL PAIN AFTER CHRONIC LESION OF THE SPINAL CORD
Dr Pere Boadas Vaello
Facultat de Medicina - Universitat de Girona
Dr Petr Dubový
Faculty of Medicine - Masaryk University. República txeca
LIPOPROTEIN BIOMARKERS TO DETERMINE INFLAMMATION OF THE CAROTID PLAQUE IN ISCHAEMIC STROKE
Dr Pol Camps Renom
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - IIBHSCSP
LIPOPROTEIN BIOMARKERS TO DETERMINE INFLAMMATION OF THE CAROTID PLAQUE IN ISCHAEMIC STROKE
Dr Ángel Chamorro Sánchez
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic - IDIBAPS
Dr Sergio Martínez Yelamos
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Hospital de Bellvitge - IDIBELL
Dr Elisa Cuadrado Godia
Institut Hospital Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques - IMIM
Dr María Ángeles Muchada López
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
NEW PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS OF OPTIMAL FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AND OF GOOD RESPONSE TO ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE. PROMISE STUDY (SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS MONITORING DURING ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE) STUDY
Dr Antoni Dávalos Errando
Institut d'Investigació Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - IIHGTP
CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT, STROKE UNIT, REHABILITATION, OPTICAL, DIFFUSE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY, CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW, CEREBRAL SELF-REGULATION
Dr Raquel Delgado Mederos
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - IIBHSCSP
Dr Turgut Durduran
Institut de Ciències Fotòniques - ICFO
DEVELOPMENT NEW LRRC8/VRAC CHLORIDE CHANNEL INHIBITORS, A NEW KEY ELEMENT IN ISCHAEMIA
Dr Raúl Estévez Povedano
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Hospital de Bellvitge - IDIBELL
Dr Rodolfo Lavilla Grifols
Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació - Universitat de Barcelona
EPIGENESIS PROJECT. EPIGENETIC AND GENETIC STUDY COMBINED WITH INTEGROMICA OF DATA AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS TO FIND GENES ASSOCIATED WITH NEUROLOGICAL DETERIORATION FOLLOWING ISCHAEMIC STROKE
Dr Israel Fernández Cadenas
Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa
Dr Manel Esteller Badosa
Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras HUGTiP
Dr Cristòfol Vives Bauzà
Hospital Universitari Son Espases - Palma
FACING THE CHALLENGES OF ACUTE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH STROKE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ACHIEVING THE HIGHEST RATES OF REPERFUSION TREATMENTS, ELIMINATING INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS AND HANDLING BIG DATA
Dr Miquel Gallofré López
Fundació Ictus
Dr Alfonso Valencia Herrera
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Dr Antonio Martínez Yélamos
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Hospital de Bellvitge - IDIBELL
RECOVERY OF ARM AND HAND MOVEMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY USING ELECTRICAL SPINAL NEUROMODULATION/STIMULATION ASSISTED WITH AN ARM EXOSKELETON
Dr Guillermo García Alías
Institut de Neurociències - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Dr Jesús Benito Penalva
Institut de Neurorehabilitació - Hospital Universitari Guttmann
Dr Juan C. Moreno Sastoque
Instituto Cajal - CSIC
RARE GENETIC VARIANTS ASSOCIATED WITH NEONATAL CEREBRAL ARTERIAL INFARCTION
Dr Alfredo García Alix
Hospital Sant Joan de Déu - Esplugues de Llobregat
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVENTION FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE IN GERIATRIC POST-STROKE REHABILITATION DURING ADMISSION AND IN TRANSIT TO THE HOME (IMAGINE)
Dr Marco Inzitari
Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili
DISCOVERY AND CLINICAL USEFULNESS OF BLOOD BIOMARKERS IN STROKE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA
Dr Olga Maisterra Santos
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Francisco Moniche Álvarez
Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío - Sevilla
EFFECTS OF COMBINED THERAPIES OF EXERCISE, MINDFULNESS AND COGNITIVE STIMULATION IN COGNITION AND NEUROPLASTICITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ISCHAEMIC ICTUS
Dr Maria Mataró Serrat
Institut de Neurociències - Universitat de Barcelona
Dr María José Durá Mataz
Institut d'Investigació Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - IIHGTP
Dr Alberto García Molina
Institut de Neurorehabilitació - Hospital Universitari Guttmann
FAECAL INCONTINENCE AFTER ISCHAEMIC STROKE (FINISH STUDY): UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND NEW FRONTIERS IN ITS TREATMENT
Dr Mónica Millán Torné
Institut d'Investigació Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - IIHGTP
ITACAT: IMPACT OF THROMBUS ANALYSIS IN STROKE PATIENTS IN CATALONIA
Dr Carlos Molina Cateriano
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Laura Dorado Bouix
Institut d'Investigació Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol - IIHGTP
Dr Gisela Carolina de la Torre
Fundació Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras
HELP AND CARE SYSTEM FOR PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
Dr Lluïsa Montesinos Magraner
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
CLINICAL GRADE COMBINED CELL, TRANSPLANT THERAPY WITH SMALL NEUROPROTECTIVE CHEMICAL PRODUCTS IPSC-DERIVED INA RAT MODEL FOR CENTRAL SCI REGENERATION OF SPINAL CORD PATHWAYS
Dr Victòria Moreno Manzano
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe - València
COMBINATORY TREATMENT OF NEURAL PRECURSOR CELLS AND A NEW NANOCONJUGATE OF FASUDIL FOR THE CLINICAL APPLICATION IN ACUTE SPINAL CORD INJURY
Dr Ferran Pellisé Urquiza
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Maria Jesús Vicent Docón
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe - València
BRAIN-INTESTINE INTERACTION IN STROKE: DYSFUNCTION OF THE INTESTINAL BARRIER AND IMMUNE RESPONSES AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS
Dr Anna M. Planas Obradors
Institut Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona - IIBB CSIC
Dr Xabier Urra Nuin
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic - IDIBAPS
Dr David Sancho Madrid
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III - CNIC Madrid
ANAEMIA OR TRANSFUSION: A CLINICAL DILEMMA IN A PATIENT WITH CRANIOENCEPHALIC TRAUMA
Dr M. Antonia Poca Pastor
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Àngel Sandoval Álvarez
Institut de Ciències Fotòniques - ICFO
DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMARKERS OF CEREBRAL CONNECTIVITY ASSESSED BY MAGNETIC RESONANCE DURING THE RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL INFARCTION
Dr Josep Puig Alcántara
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona - IDIBGi
Dr Esther Duarte Oller
Institut Hospital Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques - IMIM
Dr Cathy Stinear
Centre of Brain Research - University of Auckland. Nova Zelanda
Dr Gustavo Deco
Centre del Cervell i Cognició - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dr Gottfried Schlaug
Research and Academic Affairs - Harvard Medical School. Estats Units
GENIUS: GENETIC INFLUENCES ON THE FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF STROKE
Dr Raquel Rabionet Janssen
Fundació per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu
HEALTH, SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PROVIDING ACCESS FOR ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS TO INTEGRATED STROKE CARE CENTRES. COST-UTILITY STUDY ASSOCIATED WITH THE RACECAT TRIAL
Dr Aida Ribera Solé
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
SMARTPHONE APPLICATION TO ENCOURAGE HEALTHY MODIFICATION OF LIFESTYLE AND MONITORING OF THERAPEUTIC COMPLIANCE IN THE SECONDARY PREVENTION OF STROKES IN MULTIPLE CENTRES IN CATALONIA
Dr Marc Ribó Jacobi
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
MUSICAL LEARNING AND SINGING IN CEREBRAL RECOVERY: EFFICACY OF MUSIC-BASED INTERVENTIONS IMPROVED TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SOCIOMOTIVATIONAL FACTORS IN STROKE REHABILITATION
Dr Antoni Rodríguez Fornells
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Hospital de Bellvitge - IDIBELL
Dr Josep Lluís Arcos Rosell
Institut Investigació Intel·ligència Artificial - IIIA CSIC
Dr Teppo Särkämö
Cognitive Brain Research Unit - University of Helsinki. Finlàndia
INFLUENCE OF TIME TO CONTROL OF ARTERIAL PRESSURE ON GROWTH OF THE HAEMATOMA IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE INTRACEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE
Dr David Rodríguez Luna
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
Dr Laura Llull Estrany
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer, Hospital Clínic - IDIBAPS
INFLUENCE OF DIESEL MOTOR PARTICLES AS ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS IN BRAIN LESIONS AND REPAIR AFTER EXPERIMENTAL STROKE
Dr Anna Rosell Novel
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
COMPUTERISED TOMOGRAPHY OF PERFUSION CHARACTERISED BY LACK OF CLINICAL IMPROVEMENT AFTER RECHANNELLING IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE (CTP_AFT_REC)
Dr Marta Aurora Rubiera del Fueyo
Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - VHIR
BLOOD MARKERS OF THE QUALITY OF FAT IN THE DIET AND INCIDENCE OF ISCHAEMIC STROKE IN A MEDITERRANEAN POPULATION
Dr Aleix Sala Vila
Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center
EFFECTS OF AGE IN CRANIOENCEPHALIC TRAUMA; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
Dr David Sánchez Molina
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Dr Mehdi Shafieian
Amir Kabir University of Technology - Teheran
PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE PREDICTION OF GROWTH OF THE CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE USING CT PERFUSION
Dr Yolanda Silva Blas
Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta - IDIBGI
RANDOM CONTROLLED TRIAL ON THE POTENTIATING EFFECT TRANSCRANIAL RANDOM NOISE STIMULATION (TRNS) IN THE COGNITIVE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN DAMAGE
Dr Josep M. Tormos Muñoz
Institut de Neurorehabilitació - Hospital Universitari Guttmann
MODULATION OF THE PERINEURAL NETWORKS USING PHYSICAL EXERCISE AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY IN ANIMAL MODELS: PLASTICITY VERSUS STABILITY OF THE NEURAL CIRCUITS
Dr Esther Udina Bonet
Facultat de Medicina - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Dr Joost Verhaagen
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Països Baixos
EFFICACY OF A PROGRAMME OF STABILITY EXERCISES OF CORE IN DYNAMIC BALANCE WHEN SEATED, CONTROL OF TRUNK AND FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION IN PATIENTS WITH SUBACUTE STROKE: RANDOMISED CLINICAL TRIAL
Dr Gerard Urrutia Cuchí
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - IIBHSCSP
This video includes the summaries of the following researchers:
Dr Sergio Amaro Delgado, IDIBAPS
Dr Pere Boadas Vaello, Facultat de Medicina UdG
Dr Alejandro Bustamante Rangel (projecte coordinat per la Dra. Olga Maisterra Santos), VHIR
Dr Pol Camps Renom, IB Sant Pau
Dr Ángel Chamorro Sánchez, IDIBAPS
Dr Antoni Dávalos Errando, IGTP
Dr Raquel Delgado Mederos, IB Sant Pau
Dr Raúl Estévez Povedano, IDIBELL
This video includes the summaries of the following researchers:
Dr Israel Fernández Cadenas, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa
Dr Miquel Gallofré López, Fundació Ictus
Dr Guillermo García Alías, Institut de Neurociències UAB
Dr Marco Inzitari, Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili
Dr Maria Mataró Serrat, Institut de Neurociències UB
Dr Mónica Millán Torné, IGTP
Dr Lluïsa Montesinos Magraner, VHIR
Dr Victòria Moreno Manzano, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, València
This video includes the summaries of the following researchers:
Dr Ferran Pellisé Urquiza, VHIR
Dr Anna M. Planas Obradors, IIBB
Dr M. Antonia Poca Pastor, VHIR
Dr Josep Puig Alcántara, IDIBGI
Dr Raquel Rabionet Janssen, Sant Joan de Déu Fundació de Recerca
Dr Aida Ribera Solé, VHIR
Dr Marc Ribó Jacobi, VHIR
Dr Antoni Rodríguez Fornells, IDIBELL
This video includes the summaries of the following researchers:
Dr David Rodríguez Luna, VHIR
Dr Anna Rosell Novel, VHIR
Dr Marta Aurora Rubiera del Fueyo, VHIR
Dr Aleix Sala Vila, Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center
Dr David Sánchez Molina, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial UPC
Dr Yolanda Silva Blas, IDIBGI
Dr Josep M. Tormos Muñoz, Hospital Universitari Guttmann
Dr Esther Udina Bonet, Facultat de Medicina UAB