REPORT2021
About IDIBAPS
The Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) is a biomedical research institute of excellence. It combines clinical and basic research to accelerate the translation of knowledge to the benefit of the patients.
Founded in 1996, it is a public consortium formed by the Generalitat de Catalunya, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Universitat de Barcelona and, as an associated center, the CSIC’s Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute.
The research activities of IDIBAPS are structured into 5 areas. Additionally, 3 transversal groups perform research in “primary care”, “nursing” and “pharmacology and clinical trials”.
About
FUNDACIÓ CLÍNIC
The Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica (FCRB) is a non-profit foundation that provides researchers from IDIBAPS and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, with overall administrative and management support.
Founded in 1989, it also works to attract resources for research and, through the Aula Clínic and Eixample Clínic platforms, it promotes and disseminates continuous training in health sciences.
Research areas
107
Research
groups
1,697 Researchers
- 1Biological aggression
and response mechanisms - 2Respiratory, cardiovascular and renal pathobiology and bioengineering
- 3Liver, digestive system
and metabolism - 4Clinical and experimental
neuroscience - 5Oncology
and haematology
Original articles
1,815 Articles
-
Q1
1,18065% -
D1
52629% -
1,27070%
Funding sources
(consolidated IDIBAPS + FCRB)
- Research
- 1 Competitive funding 20,918,034 € 33.3 % Research
- 2 Private funding 21,700,472 € 34.5 %
- 3 Donations 5,990,516 € 9,5 %
- 4 Knowledge dissemination 2,792,348 € 4.4 %
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- 5 Generalitat de Catalunya 7,003,179 € 11.1 %
- Others
- 6 Core facilities 1,139,117 € 1.8 % Others
- 7 Rental income 783,026 € 1.2 %
- 8 Intercompany services 420,809 € 0.7 %
- 9 Financial income 11,752 € 0.1 %
- 10 Capital grant 2,046,683 € 3.3 %
Total
62,805,938 €
Total
62,805,938 €
7.1 % Others
11.1 % Generalitat de Catalunya
81.7 % Research
Total
51,401,371 €
Total
51,401,371 €
Executed funds
by source
- National37,502,695 €73 %
- International13,898,677 €27 %
Executed funds by
research area
- Area 17,923,897 €15.4 %
- Area 25,674,465 €11 %
- Area 312,349,561 €24 %
- Area 47,538,115 €14.6 %
- Area 514,339,910 €28 %
- Transversal598,352 €1.2 %
- Other research2,977,071 €5.8 %
People
Women
1,245
62%
TOTAL2,025
Men
771
38%
Professional category
New competitive projects
Total221
163 Projects
58 Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
International
53
47
Projects
- 27 European Commission. Coordinated=6
- 5 National Institutes of Health. Renewed=5
- 15 Other
6
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
- 1 European Commission
- 5 Other
Spanish
141
102
Projects
39
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
Catalan
27
14
Projects
13
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
Active competitive projects
Total932
749 Projects
183 Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
International
166
156
Projects
- 108 European Commission. Coordinated=6
- 7 National Institutes of Health. Renewed=5
- 41 Other
10
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
- 3 European Commission
- 7 Other
Spanish
577
437
Projects
140
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
Catalan
189
156
Projects
33
Human
resources
grants
resources
grants
Core facilitiess
Services
|
Research
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biobank of Hospital Clínic - Idibaps | |||||
| Biobank of Hospital Clínic - Idibaps | 28 | 45 | 210 | 8 | 32 |
| Flow cytometry and cell sorting | |||||
| Flow cytometry and cell sorting | 5 | 2 | 79 | 1 | 6 |
| Functional genomics | |||||
| Functional genomics | 20 | 8 | 185 | 6 | 6 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging | |||||
| Magnetic resonance imaging | 18 | 4 | 68 | 14 | 5 |
| Medical statistics | |||||
| Medical statistics | 0 | 3 | 191 | 70 | 0 |
Innovation and education
Innovation
Patent
portfolio
65
New patents
in 2021
12
License
agreements
46
New license
in 2021
7
Spin-offs
15
New spin-offs
in 2021
2
Education
Thesis
defended
121
IDIBAPS
seminars
15
Eixample Clínic and
Aula Clínic courses
226
Stepping-stone
programme’s activities
8
Toolbox, IDIBAPS
Talk Series
3
Institutional news
February
Barcelona researchers draw 3D map of the genome of healthy and cancerous lymphocytes.
March
A study in Nature concludes that immunotherapy is less efficacious in nonviral liver cancer.
A molecular classification predicts the prognosis and the benefit of a cell cycle inhibitor in metastatic breast cancer.
April
In one year, IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic collects over 40,000 samples from COVID-19 patients for research purposes.
May
IDIBAPS incorporates the ‘Translational genomics of colorectal cancer’ research group.
June
Clínic-IDIBAPS researchers identify a new autoimmune encephalitis.
A study with over 700,000 patients enables the age of onset of different mental disorders to be established.
September
The COVID-19 pandemic caused primary care diagnoses of common diseases to fall by up to 50%.
October
BACE2 inhibition aggravates the metabolic consequences of a high-fat diet in mice.
Identified a new mechanism that promotes angiogenesis in chronic liver disease.
IDIBAPS signs the transparency agreement on the use of animals in scientific experimentation in Spain.
November
Eight researchers at Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS and Universitat de Barcelona in the ranking of the best in the world.
More than 50 IDIBAPS Clinic researchers on Stanford University's list of most influential scientists.
Nearly 250 students take part in the IDIBAPS science workshops for Science Week.
December