Research programme on biomedical informatics

GRIB carries out fundamental research and technological developments on the application of new information technologies and computational methods in health and life sciences.

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Xoel Mato’s new paper on Nature: “Early developmental origins of corticaldisorders modeled in human neuralstem cells”

Xoel Mato Blanco, member of the neurogenomics group led by Gabriel Santpere, has published his first paper on Nature Magazine...

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Thesis defence of Lilian Boll:Decoding Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Response – Biomarker Discovery and Predictive Modeling through Multi-omics analyses

Lilian Boll has defended her thesis on July 8 at 10h, in room 61.210 of campus Mar Barcelona. ...

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End of the PRBB Computational Genomics course 

We have reached the end of the PRBB Computational Genomics course ...

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Members of the neurogenomics group presented their work on the 11th European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology

José Manuel Ruiz and Paula Mayo González, members of the neurogenomics group, attended the 11th European Conference of Comparative Neurobiology (ECCN2025) meeting in San Juan,...

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Members of GRIB presented their work at the congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)

Lilian Marie Boll and Marta Espinosa Camarena presented their work at the congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)...

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New pathways discovered for drugs to act on cells

Cell membrane proteins hide secret gateways that can be used to modify cell behavior. This has been demonstrated in a study led by the Hospital del...

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Research groups

Microbiome Research

The Microbiome Research Group led by Mireia Valles-Colomer analyses the human body-associated microbial communities (microbiome)...

Comparative and functional genomics

During the last years the genomic revolution has provided unique research opportunities unthought-of before....

Structural Bioinformatics

Led by Baldo Oliva and dedicated to the analysis and modelling of protein 3D structures,...

PharmacoInformatics

Led by Manuel Pastor and focused on development and application of pharmacoinformatic methods in the...

Integrative Biomedical Informatics

Led by Ferran Sanz and dedicated to the generation and execution of research initiatives for...

GPCR Drug Discovery

Led by Jana Selent and focussed on the functionality of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs)...

Functional Genomics

The research focus of the Functional Genomics group led by Robert Castelo is the development...

Evolutionary genomics

Led by M. Mar Albà and focused on the use of comparative genomics and large-scale...

Neurogenomics

Led by Gabriel Santpere aims to gain insight into the evolutionary mechanisms leading to human...

Computational science

Led by Gianni de Fabritiis is dedicated to computational science in biomedicine and machine learning....

Bioinformatics Services

The Bioinformatics Unit (BU), led by Júlia Perera, is part of the the MARGenomics platform…

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About Us

The Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) is a joint research programme of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. GRIB brings together a multidisciplinary team of more than seventy scientists, as well as technical and management staff. M. Mar Albà (HMRI) and Manuel Pastor (UPF) are both Coordinators of GRIB.

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