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Health Institute Carlos III

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Director of the National Centre for Tropical Medicine (CNMT) at the Carlos III Health Institute

PhD in Pharmacy, Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Navarra, member of the CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity, Carlos III Health Institute and IDISNA (Navarra)

Head of the Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Surveillance Group of the National Epidemiology Centre.

Researcher at the Reference and Research Laboratory in Mycology, National Microbiology Centre, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Senior Scientist at the Health Institute Carlos III

HIV, STI and hepatitis B and C Surveillance Unit. National Centre of Epidemiology, Health Institute Carlos III

Researcher in social epidemiology, public health and biostatistics 

Researcher with a PhD employed at the National Epidemiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII)

Research scientist and member of the Department of Climate Change, Health and the Urban Environment at the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Scientist at the Special Pathogens Research and Reference Laboratory of the National Microbiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute

Director and Research Scientist at the Institute for Rare Diseases Research (IIER), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII)

 

Researcher at the National Center for Microbiology - Carlos III Health Institute

Senior scientist at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre.

Scientific researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre - Carlos III Institute of Health

 

Head of the Respiratory Virus and Influenza Research Group of the Carlos III Health Institute

Full professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Oviedo, Scientific Director of the Principality of Asturias Biobank (BioPA) and Coordinator of the Organoid hub of the ISCIII Biomodels and Biobanks platform

Senior Scientist, Immunology Laboratory, Carlos III Health Institute

Research Professor at IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and Scientific Director of CIBEREHD - Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher in Vaccine-Preventable Disease Epidemiology at the National Centre of Epidemiology of the Health Institute Carlos III and member of CIBERESP

Scientific researcher at the Reference and Research Laboratory for Immunopreventable Viral Diseases of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Research professor and member of the Departament on Climate Change, Health and the Urban Environment at the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Researcher, Head of the Enterovirus and Viral Gastroenteritis Unit (Reference and Research Laboratory for Immunopreventable Viral Diseases), Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Head of the Central Scientific-Technical Units and Head of the Veterinary Unit of the Carlos III Health Institute

Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Gastroenteritis-Producing Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Raras Health Institute Carlos III

Virologist at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses of the National Microbiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Cancer epidemiologist and Director General of the Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Alcalá.

Researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre (CNE-ISCIII)

Scientific researcher at the Cancer and Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the National Epidemiology Centre, Carlos III Health Institute, member of CIBERESP and co-coordinator of the Cancer Epidemiological Surveillance Sub-programme - VICA of CIBERESP

Senior Researcher at the Carlos III Health Institute, Head of the Neuro-oncology Unit at the Chronic Diseases Research Unit (UFIEC-ISCIII)

ICREA Research Professor, Director of Andero Lab and the Rodent Behavioral Core at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and researcher in the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences at the UAB and at the Carlos III Health Institute, CIBERSAM

Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Valencia, and researcher at the CIBER Centre for the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN) at the Carlos III Institute

Researcher at the Reference Laboratory for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses at the Centro Nacional de Microbiología - Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Medical Epidemiologist at the National Epidemiology Centre - Carlos III Health Institute

Researcher in the Viral Biology laboratory of the Carlos III Health Institute

Senior Scientist at the Carlos III Health Institute, in the area of ​​Environmental Toxicology of the National Center for Environmental Health

HIV, STI and hepatitis B and C Surveillance Unit. National Centre of Epidemiology, Health Institute Carlos III

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FIT

In the US, the incidence of colorectal cancer increased in people aged 45-49 years in the period 2019-2022, after advancing the screening age from 50 to 45 years, according to a study published in JAMA. The use of mailed faecal tests made it possible to reach people in this age group, without affecting screening rates in people over 50, says another paper published in the same journal.

Mitocondrias

In 2015, the United Kingdom became the first country to pass legislation allowing the use of mitochondrial donation technology, pronuclear transfer. The technique is designed to limit, through in vitro fertilization, the transmission of mitochondrial DNA diseases in babies born to women who are at high risk, and for which there is no cure. Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) describe the results of the first treatments performed to date, from which eight babies have been born by mitochondrial donation, with reduced risk of disease.

old people

An international team has analysed data from more than 160,000 people in 40 different countries, including Spain, to study differences in the speed of ageing between regions and the factors responsible. According to the results, European countries show healthier ageing, while low-income countries are associated with accelerated ageing. Protective factors include physical factors such as air quality; social factors such as socioeconomic and gender equality; and sociopolitical factors such as freedom of political parties and democratic elections. The study is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

calor

The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has reported that a warm weather will bring temperatures 6 to 7 ºC higher than normal for this time of year throughout Spain. According to AEMET, 29 May to 1 June could be the warmest days for this time of year since at least 1950.

 

 

norovirus

According to the results of a phase 2 trial, an oral norovirus vaccine generated a strong mucosal immune response and even reduced viral shedding in vaccinated volunteers. Signs of the vaccine's efficacy support its potential to address the lack of safe and reliable vaccines against this virus, which is a major cause of gastrointestinal infections worldwide. The results were published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

vaccine

If immunisation rates continue to decline over an extended period, measles and even other eradicated diseases—such as rubella and polio—could re-emerge in the United States at endemic levels, according to a new study published today in the journal JAMA.

brain cells

A set of articles published in Nature and Nature Methods draws a high-resolution map of the structure of and connections between the brain cells of mice. The map is based on data from a single cubic millimetre of brain and includes more than 200,000 cells, around 84,000 neurons and 524 million synaptic connections. Although this is a very small part of the mouse brain, it will help us understand how different types of cells work together.

drugs

A team from Canada and the United States has found a candidate to form part of a new class of antibiotics, lariocidin. This could be effective against multi-resistant bacteria. The finding is published in the journal Nature.

Measles

From 1 January to 23 February 2025, more than half as many cases of measles had already been reported in Spain as in the previous year. To analyse the causes of this spike, assess the seriousness of the situation and the measures to be taken, the Science Media Centre Spain organised a briefing with Noemí López Perea, researcher at the National Epidemiology Centre (CNE-ISCIII), Fernando Moraga-Llop, paediatrician, spokesperson and senior member of the Spanish Vaccinology Association (AEV), and María del Mar Tomás, spokesperson of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

laboratory mouse

A team of researchers has used embryonic stem cell engineering to create a bipaternal mouse - a mouse with two male parents - that lived to adulthood. Their results, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, show how targeting a particular set of genes involved in reproduction enabled this breakthrough in unisexual reproduction in mammals.