The University of Barcelona takes part in four research projects on neurodegenerative diseases, antimalarial drugs, minority pathologies and vascular malformations that will receive grants from the CaixaResearch call for research in health 2024. This grants are promoted by the La Caixa Foundation to provide results that benefit people’s health and well-being. The call, now in its seventh year, will provide funding of 25.7 million euros for a total of 29 new biomedical research projects of excellence with a high social impact in basic, clinical and translational research. This year, the selected initiatives — out of a total of 580 submitted — will be developed over the next three years in research centres, hospitals and universities in Spain and Portugal, in collaboration with other international institutions.

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