Mutua Madrileña Foundation presented on July 14th the XIII call of the “Grants for Health Research” funded with 1.7 million euros for 18 projects. Drs. Thaís Armangué, neuropaediatrician at the Experimental Neuroimmunology Unit of IDIBAPS and Hospital Clinic, and Mihai Calin Pavel, from the Department of General and Digestive Surgery at the hospital, have received two of these grants.
The Mutua Madrileña Foundation was established in 2003 with the aim of supporting medical research. Since then it has awarded over 1,000 projects. Queen Sofia attended on Wednesday June 12 the awards ceremony of this Foundation. Those awards cover many areas of research and social action, and among the winners there was Dr. Eduard Gratacós, Chief of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Service at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and head of the Fetal and Perinatal Medicine IDIBAPS research group. The award for Scientific Research was oriented to the field of rare diseases, and will be dedicated to a project on cardiovascular function in surviving twins after fetal-fetal transfusion.
Information via: Fundación Mutua Madrileña
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