Fundación Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Girona “Dr. Josep Trueta”_IDIBGI

The Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI) is a CERCA research centre of the Generalitat de Catalunya and is structured with own research groups and researchers from the Dr. Josep Trueta University Hospital (HUJT), the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), the Institut d’Assistència Sanitària (IAS), the Institut de Diagnòstic per la Imatge (IDI), the Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), the Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), the Universitat de Girona (UdG), the Escola Universitària de la Salut i Esports (EUSES) and the Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAP) Jordi Gol in Girona.

Services

The IDIBGI collaborates by providing two scientific platforms:
I.- The IDIBGI Biobank whose most notable collections are the following:
• Inflammatory bowel disease (Catalog of samples from patients with inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease)
• Fat Bank, promoted by CIBERobn (Catalog of samples of highly prevalent diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated pathologies)
• Glomerular Renal Disease (Catalog of samples from patients diagnosed with glomerular renal disease through renal biopsy)
• COVID (Catalog of samples from patients infected by SARS – CoV – 2)
• ICTUS (Catalog of samples from patients who have suffered a stroke)
II.- The IDIBGI Drosophila Fly Room, a scientific platform for research using Drosophila melanogaster as an animal model.