Barcelona, April 11, 2018. - The RD Connect project, coordinated jointly by the CNAG-CRG and Newcastle University, has made an important breakthrough. The RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform has been accepted by the International...

Barcelona, 8 March 2018.- The CNAG-CRG is marking International Women's Day 2018 with this photograph of most of the women working in the centre to visualize their active role in the institute.   According to the...

February 28 2018 (Rare Disease Day).- Rare Diseases are one of the world’s greatest health challenges. Statistics tell us that 1 in 17 people will be affected by a rare disease at some point in their lives. According to the European Union, diseases are considered rare when they affect no more than...

25 January 2018.- The RD-Connect coordination office announced yesterday that Dr Ivo Gut from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) in Barcelona will serve as RD-Connect’s new scientific coordinator. Ivo takes over the coordination role from Dr...

Barcelona, 25 January 2018.- The whole-exome sequencing of a patient, published in the journal Scientific Reports, favoured the diagnoses of FOXP1 syndrome, a rare disease, which shows autist features and language delay. Only twenty people have been diagnosed with this genetic disease at a global...

Barcelona, 25 Jan 2018.- The Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute  (IDIBAPS) and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have launched the fourth call of the training programme “PhD...