The Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) is a leading centre in biomedical research. Its privileged association with a tertiary referral hospital makes it highly competitive, strengthening its collaboration with other science parks, universities and research institutes.
VHIR’s research focuses on solving problems in human health and improving healthcare. At the same time, it promotes raising the value of and transferring research results to the production sector, placing innovation at the centre of its activity.
The centre works with highly consolidated research groups and researchers in the areas of oncology, endocrinology and nephrology, cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience, digestive and liver diseases, infectious diseases, respiratory and systemic diseases, gynaecological diseases, paediatrics and experimental surgery, epidemiology, pharmacology, new therapies and clinical research and nanomedicine support departments.