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Fundación Occident awards Andreea Ciudin and María Mittelbrunn for their research in food, nutrition and health

In this sixth edition, the awards recognize research on the evaluation with artificial intelligence of the key factors in obesity and on the mechanisms that regulate the immune system as a therapeutic target to delay age-related diseases.

What do you put on your plate to take care of your heart?

In celebration of World Heart Day, Lina Badimon, an expert in cardiovascular research at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau (Sant Pau Research Institute) and a judge for the Premios a la Investigación Fundación Jesús Serra (Fundación Jesús Serra Awards), shares the secrets of a healthy diet to prevent heart diseases.

Fundación Occident awards researchers Manuel Irimia and Maira Bes- Rastrollo

Dr Manuel Irimia, Professor at ICREA research and Head of Unit at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and Dr Maira Bes-Rastrollo, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra (UNAV), are the winners of the Fundación Occident...

We talk about health prevention with María Blasco and Luis Quevedo

On this World Health Day, we went to the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (National Cancer Research Centre, CNIO) to meet with María Blasco, director of the centre and president of the jury for the Fundación Jesús Serra Awards. This time, Luis Quevedo, director of strategic projects at the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT), joined us to interview María.

Three questions and six answers to understand obesity

To help us understand obesity better, we spoke with Guadalupe Sabio (CNIC), Rubén Nogueiras (CIMUS) and Raúl Zamora (IDIBELL). All three have been recognised for their work in this field through the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Awards.

Research with and for women

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and we are bringing you the stories of three women scientists who are researching the effects of food and nutrition on health. Their results show that a healthy diet is not limited to a single type...

Interview with Arkaitz Carracedo: “Molecular medicine is key to a greater understanding of prostate cancer, and hence more successful treatments”

Since 2003, and with a moustache as its logo, Movember has called upon the international community to raise awareness about the most common men's health issues. These include prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men. In June of this year, the Fundación Occident...

Interview with Fàtima Crispi on her research study awarded by Fundación Occident

Fàtima Crispi,, winner in the clinical research category of the Fundación Occident Research Awards, has given an interview to the newspaper El País. Recognised for her research studies on the development and low weight of babies during pregnancy, and at birth, it is...

Arkaitz Carracedo and Fàtima Crispi, winners of the Fundación Occident Research Awards

In this fourth edition, the awards recognise research in cancer and maternal-fetal medicine that explores the importance of food and nutrition in the prevention and treatment of diseases.

Feeding our health concerns all of us

Looking after and nurturing our health is a concept that applies to everyone, both at a personal and individual level and at a global and social level.

Raúl Zamora participates in a study linking the Mediterranean diet with a lower risk of mortality in the elderly

Raúl Zamora, winner of the second edition of the Fundación Jesús Serra Research Award, has participated in a study that links the Mediterranean diet with the reduction in the risk level of mortality in the elderly.

Today marks the opening of the submission period for the fourth edition of the Fundación Occident Research Awards, Grupo Catalana Occidente, directed at young researchers working in research centres, universities and hospitals in Spain in the fields of nutrition and...