two projects of Institute Biocruces received the award of research Merck Serono 2011
awards in ‘ rare diseases research ’ and ‘ research into fertility ’
-investigations carried out in the Department of Gynecology and obstetrics and pediatric nephrology section will receive help to continue the development of the project.
-the team of Nephrology Pediatric designed by researchers at the UPV/EHU and university hospitals Central Asturias and Canary a platform computer, called ‘ renaltube.com ’, to assist practitioners in clinical, genetic diagnosis and treatment of rare disorders of tubular origin in children
– platform can help us much in the consultationIt will allow us to better understand the clinical variability have the data of a large number of patients, but above all will allow access to the genetic diagnosis to those countries in which there is no money to carry out studies and difficult access to the information ”, says Gema Ariceta, responsible for the section.
-the work led by Roberto Matorras gynecologist has obtained a grant of € 200,000 for his study of endometrial tissue and receptivity uterine.
Bilbao, 2011-August Two research projects of the BioCruces Institute have been awarded the prestigious Merck Serono research awards 2011, giving substantial support to the development of the same. Projects come also from two very different departments, such as the Department of Gynecology and obstetrics and pediatric nephrology section.
On the one hand, the Merck Serono research award 2011 in the area of ‘ research for rare diseases and their clinical implications ’ has gone to the area of pediatric nephrology, by project Renaltube.com, this section is carried out by the University of the country Basque UPV/EHUthe Central University Hospital of Asturias and the Hospital Universitario de Canarias.
The award-winning work, called development of a system of molecular clinical study of primary tubulopatÃas to maximize the scientific yield of information and diagnostic procedures, mainly consists of an Internet portal that serves as a clinical guide to specialists in diagnostic clinical and genetic rare diseases within the pathologies tubular children.
The computer platform, Renaltube.com, offers clinicians not only the possibility to check symptoms and treatments of these rare diseases, but it also enables them to participate in the creation of a database clinical and molecular pathologies such as distal renal tubular Acidosis, the Gitelman syndrome, the disease of Dent family hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis, Bartter syndrome type III or Diabetes Insipidus nefrogénica.
Aid that can come us in very handy the Nephrologists as consultation, but especially those countries that do not have specific studies of these diseases and have difficult access to the information about them is ”, says Gema Ariceta, responsible for the section of Nephrology Pediatric BioCruces. The project took an award which aspired more than 70 nominations.
Prize in Gynecology
On the other hand, the Department of Gynecology and obstetrics has received the scholarship for the ‘ research into fertility ’ (Grant for Fertility Innovation) project called endometrial tissue Proteomics to measure uterine receptivity, led by Dr. Roberto Matorras. This work has been one of the five chosen in this field to receive the aid of 200,000 euros, between 55 applications from 14 countries.
