Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica
The Clinic Foundation is a non-profit institution created in May 1989. Its mission is to promote, manage and perform biomedical research and provide teaching in the health sciences field, concentrating particularly on the areas of expertise of the Hospital Clínic Barcelona and the fields in which the Hospital operates either individually or in partnership with other organisations.
Since 1989, the Foundation has been providing researchers at the Hospital Clínic Barcelona with the support needed to manage and develop their projects successfully and justify resource used to funding institutions. An agreement signed with the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS) makes the Clinic Foundation responsible for management of the significant proportion of research conducted within that framework.
The Foundation's mission is to promote, manage and perform biomedical research and provide teaching in the health sciences field. Its work is also inspired by its aim to foster health and teaching development and co-operation between people.
Team member information
Dr Manel Juan is a doctor of Medicine (MD, Ph.D.), specialized in Immunology since 1994. He works as Head of the Immunology Department at Hospital Clínic Barcelona (2020 – ) and previously as head of the sections of Clinical Immunology (2007-2017) and of Immunotherapy (2017-2020). In 2017 he became Head of the Immunotherapy Platform at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Dr Manel Juan is part of the multidisciplinary team behind the development of the firsts two European CAR-T-cell therapies to treat B-leukemias, lymphomas and more recently multiple myeloma. He is also involved in proposal of cell immunotherapy with TILs and DCs.
For more than ten years, Dr. Hugo Calderon (DPhil) has worked in the field of oncology, creating novel approaches to the treatment of cancer, mostly utilizing gene and cell treatments. He will divide his time, starting in 2020, between improving the production of viral vectors at the Hospital Clínic Barcelona and mentoring PhD students in Dr. Manel Juan's group at IDIBAPS, Barcelona
