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Recerca:
The Immunology Service has a multidisciplinary team dedicated to biomedical research that develops financial research projects by agencies of the highest prestige in the Catalan, national and international sphere.
Since 2009, the laboratory has been recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the University and Research Management Agency (AGAUR).
The laboratory has three lines of research:
1) Experimental and clinical immunotolerance
2) Innovation in diagnostic immunology
3) Clinical-epidemiological.
In the last years, there have been new research lines in Immunotherapy with the aim of restoring the immune tolerance lost in autoimmune diseases.
In this context, the laboratory is the coordinator of the European COST Action (BM1305: “Action to focus and accelerate cell-tolerogenic therapies (A FACTT), which aims to accelerate the development of tolerogenic cell therapies for the autoimmunity and transplantation (www.cost.eu) (www.afactt.eu).
Presentation:
In the Immunology Service, our male and female doctors offer immunological diagnosis and advice, within the clinical context of the patient. We are Catalan Institute of Health reference laboratory for complex immunology tests.
We also develop new tests and clinical protocols to improve patient diagnosis. We are a team committed to providing quality patient-oriented service in terms of healthcare, teaching and research.
Our clinical areas of expertiseinclude: autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiencies, cellular immunology, allergies, immunochemistry, immunotherapy and immunomonitoring, and histocompatibility and immunogenetics.
We actively participate in working groups and committees of the Spanish Society of Immunology : Autoimmunity Group (GEAI), Immunochemistry, Immunodeficiencies and Immunotherapy Group (GEIT); as well as of the Catalan Society of Immunology : Scientific Committee, Care Committee, Immunodeficiency Committee.
We are also involved in the hospital's multidisciplinary committees that help to define strategies to follow when diagnosing immunomediated pathologies: multiple myeloma, primary immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases (diabetes, coeliac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, etc.) and immunotherapy infections.
The Immunology Service at Hospital Germans Trias is recognised as a Barcelona-UAB-Focio centre of excellence, by the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (Focio) .
We also collaborate closely with these centres, among others:
- UC San Diego School of Medicine (USA)
- Sanquin (NL)
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- Newcastle Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (ITA)
- University Hospital Regensburg (GER)
- Antwerp University Hospital (BEL)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (GER)
- Nara Medical University (JPN)
- Child and Family Research Institute (CAN)
If you would like to learn more and share our activities you can visit us at The MetroNord Clinical Laboratory Immunology Blog .
Tipus Servei: 6
Correu: immunologia.germanstrias@gencat.cat
Docència:
El Servicio de Inmunología está acreditado para la docencia de residentes (BIR, FIR, MIR) desde 2004.
Miembros del laboratorio tienen responsabilidad docente en la asignatura de Inmunología del Grado de Medicina y Biomedicina en la Unidad Docente del Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol (Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)).
También imparten docencia de posgrado en programas de Máster de Inmunología Avanzada Interuniversitaria de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona-Universidad de Barcelona (UAB-UB), en el Máster del SIDA (IrsiCaixa) y el Máster de Biomedicina de la Universidad de Barcelona (UB ) .
El Laboratorio de Inmunología cuenta además con un programa de formación de estudiantes de Postgrado y Doctorado.
See the Teaching guide.
Medical team
Head of Service. Full Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine UDGTP
Specialist doctor. Resident Advisor
Joan Climent Martí
Specialist doctor.
Specialist doctor.
María Iglesias Escudero
Specialist doctor.
Marc Boigues Pons
Specialist doctor.
Noelia Arias González
Resident 3rd year.
Andrea García López
Resident 2nd year.
Joana Mora Amengual
Resident 1st year.
Jordi Hernández Bolaños
Coordinator
Aroa Pardell Martin
Laboratory technician
Àlex Soriano Martínez
Laboratory technician
María Martínez Gónzalez
Laboratory technician
Armando Ruiz Barzola
Laboratory technician
Patricia García Ferrer
Laboratory technician
Ana Amaro López
Laboratory technician
Ian Linares Pardo
Laboratory technician
Ana Belén Herrera Gómez
Laboratory technician
Laura Sánchez García
Laboratory technician
Sergi Vaqué Salsench
Laboratory technician
Esther Vinagre Borràs
Laboratory technician
Research team
Principal investigator. Associate Professor of Immunology at the UDGTP, Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, UAB
Post-doctoral researcher
Sílvia Rodríguez Fernández
Post-doctoral researcher
David Perna Barrull
Post-doctoral researcher
Federico Fondelli
Pre-doctoral researcher
Jana Willemyns
Pre-doctoral researcher
Laia Gómez Muñoz
Pre-doctoral researcher
Lidia Almenara Fuentes
Research technician
Coral Zurera
Research technician
Admin team
Yolanda Moreno Montaño
Administrator
In the Immunology Service, our male and female doctors offer immunological diagnosis and advice, within the clinical context of the patient. We are Catalan Institute of Health reference laboratory for complex immunology tests.
We also develop new tests and clinical protocols to improve patient diagnosis. We are a team committed to providing quality patient-oriented service in terms of healthcare, teaching and research.
Our clinical areas of expertiseinclude: autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiencies, cellular immunology, allergies, immunochemistry, immunotherapy and immunomonitoring, and histocompatibility and immunogenetics.
We actively participate in working groups and committees of the Spanish Society of Immunology : Autoimmunity Group (GEAI), Immunochemistry, Immunodeficiencies and Immunotherapy Group (GEIT); as well as of the Catalan Society of Immunology : Scientific Committee, Care Committee, Immunodeficiency Committee.
We are also involved in the hospital's multidisciplinary committees that help to define strategies to follow when diagnosing immunomediated pathologies: multiple myeloma, primary immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases (diabetes, coeliac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, etc.) and immunotherapy infections.
The Immunology Service at Hospital Germans Trias is recognised as a Barcelona-UAB-Focio centre of excellence, by the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (Focio) .
We also collaborate closely with these centres, among others:
- UC San Diego School of Medicine (USA)
- Sanquin (NL)
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- Newcastle Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele (ITA)
- University Hospital Regensburg (GER)
- Antwerp University Hospital (BEL)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (GER)
- Nara Medical University (JPN)
- Child and Family Research Institute (CAN)
If you would like to learn more and share our activities you can visit us at The MetroNord Clinical Laboratory Immunology Blog .
In the Autoimmunity area, autoantibody studies are carried out that are useful in the diagnosis and monitoring of both systemic and organ-specific autoimmune diseases.
In the Immunochemistry area, determinations of plasma components of the Immune System (IgGs, Complement, RF, PCR) are carried out, as well as other procedures such as the detection of oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid or cryoglobulins, and follow-up of patients with multiple myeloma.
In the Cellular Immunology area, follow-up is carried out on patients with secondary immunodeficiency, HIV infections and others. In addition, studies of minority subpopulations are carried out both in the diagnosis of primary immunodeficiencies, and in the monitoring of biological and/or immunomodulatory therapies.
In the Immunoallergy area, the detection of specific IgE is carried out, as well as studies for allergenic components using microarrays. Functional studies are also carried out for the diagnosis of drug hypersensitivity based on the basophil activation test (TAB) and the lymphocyte transformation test (LTT).
The area of Histocompatibilitat is carried out related studies with HLA.
In the Biological Therapy Monitoring area, biological drug levels are monitored and autoantibodies against these drugs are detected.
The Immunology Service has a multidisciplinary team dedicated to biomedical research that develops financial research projects by agencies of the highest prestige in the Catalan, national and international sphere.
Since 2009, the laboratory has been recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the University and Research Management Agency (AGAUR).
The laboratory has three lines of research:
1) Experimental and clinical immunotolerance
2) Innovation in diagnostic immunology
3) Clinical-epidemiological.
In the last years, there have been new research lines in Immunotherapy with the aim of restoring the immune tolerance lost in autoimmune diseases.
In this context, the laboratory is the coordinator of the European COST Action (BM1305: “Action to focus and accelerate cell-tolerogenic therapies (A FACTT), which aims to accelerate the development of tolerogenic cell therapies for the autoimmunity and transplantation (www.cost.eu) (www.afactt.eu).
El Servicio de Inmunología está acreditado para la docencia de residentes (BIR, FIR, MIR) desde 2004.
Miembros del laboratorio tienen responsabilidad docente en la asignatura de Inmunología del Grado de Medicina y Biomedicina en la Unidad Docente del Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol (Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)).
También imparten docencia de posgrado en programas de Máster de Inmunología Avanzada Interuniversitaria de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona-Universidad de Barcelona (UAB-UB), en el Máster del SIDA (IrsiCaixa) y el Máster de Biomedicina de la Universidad de Barcelona (UB ) .
El Laboratorio de Inmunología cuenta además con un programa de formación de estudiantes de Postgrado y Doctorado.
See the Teaching guide.
Contacte: immunologia.germanstrias@gencat.cat