The IDIBELL researcher Gabriel Capellá has been appointed new Head of Research and Innovation for Health of the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya, replacing Marta Aymerich.
On April 2nd Marga Frontera joined IDIBELL as scientific office manager. Her mission, in her own words, is "getting the researcher, as far as possible, do not worry about anything but to investigate".
Researchers of the IDIBELL and the Hospital Vall d'Hebron have studied a family affected by both type 1 neurofibromatosis and early breast cancer and they have detected mutations in NF1 and BRCA1 genes responsible for the two diseases, respectively.
The head of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Unit at the Bellvitge University Hospital and researcher at the Cardiovascular Diseases group at IDIBELL, Nicolás Manito, spoke about heart failure on May 7 in the library of Bellvitge.