Projects

“Identificación de biomarcadores diagnósticos y pronósticos en la artritis psoriásica mediante la aplicación del riesgo poligénico, transcriptómica y proteómica.”

Research Leader:
Roberto Díaz Peña
Institution:
Principal Researcher, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (FIDIS, SERGAS)
Funding:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III, PI22/00804

“Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysms and aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage”

Research Leader:
Dr. Y.M. Ruigrok
Institution:
University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht
Funding:
Dutch Heart Foundation, Dekker postdoc fellowship 03-006-2023-0110 entitled ‘GENETIC’ Dutch Heart Foundation, Dekker established clinical investigator fellowship entitle ‘FEMININE’ European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 res

Investigating ACOX2 Deficiency as Aetiology of Hypertransaminasemia in the Catalan Population: An Epidemiological Study.

Research Leader:
Marta Alonso-Peña, Javier Crespo
Institution:
Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL), Head of the Digestive Service, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital
Funding:
European Commission H2020 EU.3.1.2 Grant agreement ID: 874627, IDIVAL. NEXT-VAL call 2022. ID: NVAL 22/04,

Novel collaboration among the GCAT cohort with the COVID-19 european cohort ORCHESTRA

Institution:
Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH)
GCAT Input:
https://orchestra-cohort.eu/
Funding:
ORCHESTRA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016167.

External exposome & longitudinal accelerated design for lung function

Research Leader:
Jelle Vlaanderen
Institution:
Associate Professor, Utrecht University (UU)
Funding:
GeoInf+. Grant agreement PI18/01512 European Commission H2020 EU.3.1.2 Grant agreement ID: 874627, 11.993.906,99€

Y-RNAs

Research Leader:
Miguel Angel Pujana
Institution:
Institut d’Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)
Funding:
Spanish Ministry of Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Characterizing oral exposure to nano- and microplastics - EXaMINA

Research Leader:
Cristina Villanueva, PhD
Institution:
The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal; The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Funding:
The French agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, ANSES 2021/1/077. Characterizing oral exposure to micro- and nanoplastics and their translocation into human gastro-intestinal barriers EXMINA. 199,996€ (ISGlobal 107,392€). 20

Advancing food allergy research through omics sciences – Genetics of Food Allergy Study

Research Leader:
Prof. Dr. Young-Ae Lee
Institution:
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (MDC)
Funding:
Lee Lab from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in der Helmholtz- Gemeinschaft covers the costs derived from this study

ImpactT2D: una estrategia genómica para implementar medicina de precisión en la diabetes tipo 2

Research Leader:
Jorge Ferrer
Institution:
CRG
Funding:
ISCIII Proyectos de Investigación de Medicina Personalizada de Precisión de la Acción Estratégica en Salud 2017-2020 Expediente Num. PMP21/00006

GCAT URBAN LABS: EXposome Powered tools for healthy living in urbAN Settings

Research Leader:
Cathryn Tonne
Institution:
ISGlobal
Funding:
European Commission H2020 EU.3.1.2 Grant agreement ID: 874627

Federated genetic data analysis using DATASHIELD

Research Leader:
Juan R González
Institution:
ISGlobal
Funding:
VEIS Project with number 001-P-001647, co-funded in a 50% by FEDER 2014-2020 with the support of the Departament de Recerca i Universitats

DecodeDiabetes: Expanding the genetic etiological and diagnostic spectrum of monogenic diabetes mellitus

Research Leader:
Jorge Ferrer
Institution:
CRG
Funding:
European Research Council ERC (Call 2017-ADG) Grant ID: 789055

GCAT-Microbiome: Prospective assessment of Human Microbiome as Determinant of Health and Disease

Research Leader:
Victor Moreno
Institution:
Catalan Institute of Oncology
Funding:
ISCIII, PI20/01439

EXPANSE_GCAT: EXposome Powered tools for healthy living in urbAN SEttings

Research Leader:
Cathryn Tonne
Institution:
ISGlobal Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Funding:
FIS: GeoInf+. Grant agreement PI18/01512 / European Commission H2020 EU.3.1.2 Grant agreement ID: 874627

COVAIR-CAT: Air Pollution in Relation to COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality: A Large Population-Based Cohort Study in Catalonia

Research Leader:
Cathryn Tonne
Institution:
ISGlobal
Funding:
Health Effects Institute, RFA 20-1B, 500,000 USD

GOFA: Advancing food allergy research through omics sciences – Genetics of Food Allergy Study

Research Leader:
Prof. Dr. Young-Ae Lee, Dr. Aleix Arnau Soler
Institution:
Molecular Genetics of Chronic Inflammation and Allergic Disease, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin-Buch

Genetic evaluation with massive sequencing tools in a large cohort of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) under immunoglobulin replacement therapy.

Research Leader:
Roger Colobran Oriol
Institution:
Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus (HUVH)
Funding:
Grifols

GCAT MamaPrev: EPIDEMIOLOGÍA GENÉTICA Y PREVENCIÓN DEL CÁNCER DE MAMA

Research Leader:
Victor Moreno / Sonia Pernas
Institution:
Catalan Institute of Oncology
GCAT Input:
DNA samples

Reconstructing demography and natural selection from high-coverage complete genomes: application to the GCAT dataset

Research Leader:
Francesc Calafell and Elena Bosch
Institution:
UPF and IBE
Funding:
AEI, PID2019-106485GB-I00, AEI, PID2019-110933GB-I00

EV4MI

Research Leader:
Antoni Bayes-Genis. MD, PhD
Institution:
Director, Heart Institute. Heart Institute, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital
GCAT Input:
Plasma samples
Funding:
This work is supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Application number ICI20/00135

CONTENT. COVID-19 cohort in Spain: Social Dynamics, mental health and inequalities

Research Leader:
Manolis Kogevinas, ISGlobal Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Institution:
ISGlobal Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Funding:
La Caixa Social Research SR20-01024

Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors

Research Leader:
Dr. Roberto Díaz Peña
Institution:
Health Research Institute of Santiago (IDIS), Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela

CC16 and Resilience to COVID-19

Research Leader:
Rafael de Cid, PhD. GCAT Chief Scientist, Genomes for Life-GCAT Lab
Institution:
IGTP
Funding:
IGTP

THE COVID-19 - HOST GENETICS INITIATIVE

Research Leader:
https://www.covid19hg.org/
Institution:
European Consortium

COVICAT: COVID-19 cohort of Catalonia. Sero-Epidemiological Study of Catalonia

Research Leader:
Rafael de Cid, PhD. GCAT Chief Scientist, Genomes for Life-GCAT Lab
Institution:
IGTP
Funding:
IGTP

Genetic Evaluation of Disease Trajectories in the GCAT cohort

Research Leader:
Rafael de Cid, PhD. GCAT Chief Scientist, Genomes for Life-GCAT Lab
Institution:
IGTP
Funding:
VEIS

GEMINI - Genetic Evaluation of Multimorbidity towards INdividualisation of Interventions

Research Leader:
Timothy Frayling, Prof. Human Genetics
Institution:
University of Exeter, UK

VEIS European Project - Valuation of the European Archive of the Genome-Phenome (EGA) for the Industry and the Society

Research Leader:
Rafael de Cid
Institution:
IGTP
Funding:
VEIS project (001-P-001647) has been 50% co-financed with €1,951,429.38 by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union within the framework of the ERDF Operational Program of Catalonia 2014-2020 with support of Generalitat Catalunya

Triggers and drivers of latent epigenomic structure in colorectal cancer

Research Leader:
Miguel A. Peinado
Institution:
Institut de Recerca Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP)
Funding:
MINECO

Inferring population history from the unilinearly transmitted genome regions in GCAT full genomes

Research Leader:
Francesc Calafell
Institution:
UPF
Funding:
UPF: Plan Nacional project CGL2016-75389-P / Genomesforlife-IGTP: AGAUR: 2017-SGR529

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