{"id":11789,"date":"2025-11-20T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:50:41","slug":"health-research-resolution-34-biomedical-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caixaresearch.org\/en\/health-research-resolution-34-biomedical-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"34 biomedical research projects that will address the main health challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2025 edition of the Health Research Call from the \u201dla Caixa\u201d Foundation has selected 34 new cutting-edge biomedical research projects, awarding each of them up to one million euros. The projects are led by 25 research centres, universities and hospitals in Spain, and nine in Portugal.<\/b><\/p>\n

This eighth edition of the call received 714 proposals in basic, clinical and translational research, and is particularly aimed at tackling major health challenges in several areas: neurosciences, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, oncology, infectious diseases and enabling technologies in any of these fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, agreements with the <\/span>Breakthrough T1D Foundation<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>Fundaci\u00f3n Luz\u00f3n<\/span><\/a> have made it possible to place a stronger emphasis on funding initiatives focused on type 1 diabetes \u2013 two projects have been selected \u2013 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with one project chosen. The call is also carried out in collaboration with the <\/span>Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia<\/span><\/a> (FCT), a public body linked to Portugal\u2019s Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation, which is allocating 1.8 million euros to fund three of the nine Portuguese projects awarded this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among this year\u2019s selected projects are, for example, initiatives aimed at uncovering hidden cardiac risks linked to cancer treatments, improving the maturation of beta cells for diabetes therapy, creating a reliable system to test spinal injury medications without animal experimentation, studying why some patients are able to suppress HIV without treatment, or developing a universal CAR-T cell that targets several types of cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

This edition also features support for six research projects aimed at developing treatments for rare paediatric diseases, such as Myhre syndrome, treatment-resistant T-cell leukaemia \u2013 a rare and aggressive form of childhood leukaemia \u2013 or hypoxic\u2013ischaemic encephalopathy, which causes brain injury in newborns.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the words of \u00c0ngel Font, assistant general manager of Research and Fellowships at the \u201dla Caixa\u201d Foundation, \u201cBiomedical research is one of the most powerful ways to improve people\u2019s lives. The 34 awarded projects tackle very different challenges from a range of perspectives, but they all share three essential pillars for moving towards a more hopeful future for patients and their families: collaboration, talent and innovation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Presentation of the competitive funding awards<\/b><\/h2>\n

The <\/span>CosmoCaixa Science Museum<\/span><\/a> will host the award ceremony this afternoon, attended by several representatives of the \u201dla Caixa\u201d Foundation including the assistant general manager of Research and Fellowships, \u00c0ngel Font, and the deputy general manager, Esther Planas. Also present will be the president of the Luz\u00f3n Foundation, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Arregui; the senior vice president at Breakthrough T1D, Esther Latres; and the member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Paula Diogo, as well as the researchers who are leading the projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, the call allocates 26 million euros to outstanding biomedical research. It awards up to 500,000 euros to projects involving a single research institution and up to one million euros for research consortia made up of multiple institutions. In this edition, the consortium projects include collaboration with research groups from seven countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the programme began in 2018, the total funding awarded through the \u201dla Caixa\u201d Foundation Health Research Call has reached 172.3 million euros for 234 projects, of which 162 are led by Spanish teams and 72 by research groups in Portugal. Today, it stands as one of the leading biomedical and health research calls in the Iberian Peninsula.<\/span><\/p>\n

We invite you to learn more about the selected projects, organized by research areas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cardiovascular and related metabolic diseases<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

New treatments for a rare disease, the Myhre syndrome<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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