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Strategic lines

The Institut Guttmann works with 6 strategic lines of research and innovation:

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Technologies for sensorimotor rehabilitation and support products.

Contributing to generating knowledge in neurorehabilitation that has an impact on hospital clinical practice. Promoting technological innovation as a tool to improve clinical practice and/or the quality of life of people with disabilities.

  • Introducing new technologies in the neurorehabilitation field to help improve the functional autonomy of patients with neurological problems.
  • Encouraging technological innovation to improve the efficiency of rehabilitation procedures, generating objective information on each procedure and researching new support products to improve patients’ quality of life.

Head of programme:

Programa Joan Ribas Araquistain de Investigación e Innovación terapéutica en prehabilitación, rehabilitación y abordaje integral de las secuelas de tumores cerebrales

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Funding body: Fundació Joan Ribas Araquistain
Principal investigator: Dr. Josep M. Tormos
Execution: 2020-2025
Donation amount: 1.725.000€

Rehab-Lab. Cat (Community FabLab for the design and manufacture of functional adaptations for daily life activities through 3D printing)

Code: DDS008/22/000516
Funding body: Departament de Drets Socials de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Gobierno de España (Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia), European Union (NextGenerationEU).
Principal investigator: Anna de Pobes / Octavio Leni
Execution: 2020-2025
Donation amount: 181.172€

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Neural repair and advanced therapies.

Positioning our institute as a Spanish and international centre of excellence for clinical phases of translational research in clinical trials, advanced therapies and regenerative medicine applied to spinal cord injury (SCI) and acquired brain injury (ABI).

  • Promoting the development of clinical trials in neuroregenerative interventions, developing multimodal neuromodulation strategies combined with intensive robot-assisted training.
  • Creating a biodatabase of information derived from typification of patients at clinical and subclinical level that serves to select candidates for this type of study.

Head of programme:

NISCI Multicenter, multinational, placebo controlled phase II study for the safety and preliminary efficacy of intrathecal ATI355 in patients with acute cervical spinal cord injury

Code: 20121
Type of project: Competitive European
Funding body:  European Commission
Principal investigator: Dr. Jesús Benito
Execution:  2016-2023
Grant amount: 158.718€

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Estudio clínico de Seguridad, aleatorizado, doble ciego, de dos dosis y controlado con placebo en el tratamiento de la lesión medular incompleta a nivel cervical con WJ-MSC intratecal en infusión múltiple

Code: PI19/01680
Funding body: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Principal investigator: Dr. Joan Vidal
Execution: 2020-2024
Grant amount: 183,920€

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Design of transcutaneous spinal stimulation strategies for gait rehabilitation (REGAIT)

Code: PID2021-124111OB-C32
Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Principal investigator: Dra. Hatice Kumru
Execution: 2022-2025
Grant amount: 161.414€

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Neuropsychological rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation (GNPT).

Making progress in the validation of new programmes of the computerised assessment of cognitive functions, strategies of clinical intervention in the field of prevention, and active and healthy ageing. 

Exploring strategies of clinical intervention with Guttmann NeuroPersonal Trainer® in the field of prevention and active and healthy ageing.

Head of programme:

Active VRain - Tecnologías interactivas para la rehabilitación cognitiva

Code: PID2019-106426RA-C33
Funding body: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Execution: 2020-2023
Grant amount: 18,150€

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Continuous stratification for improved prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of stroke patients using digital twins and AI  (STRATIF-AI)

Code: 101080875
Funding body: European Union
Principal investigator: Alejandro García
Execution: 2023-2027
Grant amount: 244.625€

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Brain health.

Research into Brain Health carrying out a prospective longitudinal cohort study to characterise, quantify, monitor and optimise biomedical, social and environmental markers related to people's brain health.

Incorporating and integrating advanced technologies for the study of the brain with prestigious local and international experts. 

Head of programme:

Barcelona Brain Health Initiative (BBHI)

Code: 201717.32
Type of project: Non-competitive NGO
Funding body: Fundació Institut Guttmann, Fundació La Caixa, Fundació Abertis and Fundació Oncovallés
Principal investigator: Dr. David Bartrès-Faz
Execution: 2016-2023

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Beca Juan de la Cierva - Kilian Amadeus Abellaneda 

Code: FJC2021-047380-I
Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Principal investigator: Kilian Amadeus Abellaneda
Execution: 2023-2024
Donation amount: 64.800€

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Characterization and modulation of neural networks to promote resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic

Code: 202129-30
Funding body: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Principal investigator: Javier Solana
Execution: 2021-2023
Donation amount: 149.500€

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Diagnostic Accelerator (DxA) Speech & Language Consortium: Harmonized Repository for the Exploration of Speech and Laguage Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative  Disease

Code: RDADB-202212-2024379
Funding body: Alzeimer`s Drug Discovery Foundation
Principal investigator: Javier Solana y Gabriele Cattaneo
Execution: 2023-2026
Donation amount: 619.539€

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Psychological and lifestyle factors that predict adherence to multimodal interventions to promote brain health (toBrainHealth)

Code: PID2022-139298OA-C22
Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Principal investigator: Javier Solana y Gabriele Cattaneo
Execution: 2023-2026
Donation amount: 93.625€

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Neurostimulation and Neuromodulation.

Promoting non-invasive cranial stimulation as an innovative tool for the diagnosis and treatment of various pathologies associated with spinal cord injury and brain injury, as well as for the improvement of brain health.

  • Applying non-invasive stimulation techniques to optimise the plastic nature of the nervous system and its residual functional capacity caused by a lesion, inhibiting maladaptive changes and enhancing those that lead to situations of greater functionality.
  • Promoting the development of innovative non-invasive brain stimulation clinical programmes for the treatment of pathologies associated with spinal and brain injuries (such as neuropathic pain, aphasia, depression, epilepsy and cognitive deficits), as well as the recovery of motor deficit.
  • Developing and assessing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic clinical strategies with non-invasive brain stimulation as a tool, alone or with other strategies.

Head of programme:

Ensayo clínico fase II sobre el uso de la estimulación magnética transcraneal repetitiva real vs simulada asociada al tratamiento rehabilitador en la mejora de la marcha en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple

Code: PI19/01634
Funding body: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Principal investigator: Dr. Raúl Pelayo
Execution: 2020-2024
Donation amount: 32,670€

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Development of a predictive model of response to neuromodulation treatment for better management of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

Funding body: Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia 
Principal investigator: Dra. Dolors Soler
Execution: 2023-2024
Donation amount: 24.350€

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Home-based noninvasive brain stimulation to treat treatment-resistant depression: feasibility, efficacy, and biomarkers of treatment response

Code: 202211-30
Funding body: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Principal investigator: Gabriele Cattaneo
Execution: 2023-2025
Donation amount: 149.600€

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Social investigation  -QVIDLAB-.

Promoting knowledge on how contextual factors affect reintegration of people with disabilities in the social and family environment after neurorehabilitation, in their daily lives and in their quality of life. 

Innovating in procedures and social actions that defend equal opportunities and the social inclusion of people with a disability of neurological origin, and at the same time, promoting the empowerment of people with disabilities with the participation of associations of people with disabilities, especially those that belong to the Social and Participation Council of the Institut Guttmann.

Reinforcing the vision of the Institut Guttmann’s healthcare model, which is holistic, humanistic, ecological and close to people with disabilities.

Strengthening the range of strategic alliances, especially with regard to the WHO (ICF), associations of people with disabilities, social and disability observatories, universities, etc., both nationally and internationally.

Head of programme:

Participa

This is a social research project aimed at knowing and understanding how to promote the participation of people with disabilities in society, with the aim of transforming society so that it is fully inclusive.

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