Funding - Active projects (last 5 years)

Funding body: European Commission - EC
Project title: IBeCHANGE - ADDRESSING PSYCHOSOCIAL AND LIFESTYLE RISK FACTORS TO PROMOTE PRIMARY CANCER PREVENTION: AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM TO PROMOTE BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
Principal investigator: Pravettoni G
Ref.: Proposal number: 101136840 Proposal acronym: iBeCHANGE
Amount awarded: 828.291,25 € (presupuesto total: 5,9 millones)
Duration: 2023-2028
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Leveraging Genomics and Artificial Intelligence for a Non-Invasive Detection tool for Endometrial Cancer, The Urine Sample Solution (GAIN-EC)
Principal investigator: Costas L
Ref.: PI23/00790
Amount awarded: 134918,38 EUR
Duration: 2024-2026
State: Awarded

Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
Project title: Development of a non-invasive ivd for endometrial cancer screening on high-risk populations
Principal investigator: Colas E
Ref.: CPP2022-009817
Amount awarded: 1279402, 25 EUR
Duration: 2023-2026
State: Awarded

Funding body: GEICO
Project title: Mutation analysis of circulating tumor DNA in urine samples for disease monitoring in endometrial cancer
Principal investigator: Costas L
Co-investigators: Ponce J
Amount awarded: 25000 EUR
Duration: 2024-2025
State: Awarded

Funding body: NCI
Project title: Evaluating Differences in Human Papillomavirus Attributable Fraction and Genotype Distribution in Cervical, Anal, Genital and Oropharyngeal Cancers among People with and without HIV infection in South Africa
Principal investigator: Jaimie Z. Shing (Staff scientist) , Adino Tsegaye (Postdoctoral Fellow) , Wenlong Carl Chen
Co-investigators: Loretto Carvajal , Eric Engels, Meredith Shiels, Danping Liu, Siddharth Roy, Sizeka Mashele, Reubina Wadee, Bianca Da Costa Dias, Adam Botha, Abrie van Wyk, Laia Alemany, Miguel Angel Pavon Ribas, Tim Waterboer
Amount awarded: 131.151,64 USD
Duration: 2024-2025
State: Awarded

Funding body: AGAUR
Project title: GRUP SGR Epidemiologia Molecular i Genètica en Infeccions i Càncer (EMG)
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: 2021SGR01354
Amount awarded: 58847,19 EUR
Duration: 2023-2025
State: Awarded

Funding body: Fundació Leitat
Project title: Leveraging Genomics and AI for Non-Invasive Detection of Endometrial Cancer, a Urine Sample Solution: GAIN-EC
Principal investigator: Costas L
Ref.: CIMTI Challenge Call 2023
Amount awarded: 0 EUR
Duration: 2023-2025
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Contratos Predoctorales de investigación en Salud
Principal investigator: Casabonne D
Ref.: FI21/00090
Amount awarded: 89900 EUR
Duration: 2022-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Identification of non-invasive prognostic and predictive biomarkers of Human Papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancer
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Co-investigators: Brenes J
Ref.: CM21/00073
Amount awarded: 53732 EUR
Duration: 2022-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: CIBER
Project title: Novel non-invasive test to early detect endometrial cancer based on genomic exploitation and microscopy imaging of urine samples
Principal investigator: Costas L, Salamanca-Fernandez E
Co-investigators: Alemany L, Olea N, Matias-Guiu X, Capellà G, Dobaño C, et al
Amount awarded: 50000 EUR
Duration: 2023-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: Merck / MSD Sanofi-Pasteur
Project title: Self vs. Clinician: Pioneering HPV Detection in Our Hands. (aSELF-GEN: Anal Self-Sampling for Effective HPV Genotyping)
Principal investigator: Cristina Agustí (CEEISCAT), Paytubi S
Ref.: IISP 101906
Amount awarded: 38.784,14€
Duration: 2024-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Contratos PFIS: Contratos predoctorales de formación en investigación en salud - AES 2020 - ISCIII
Principal investigator: Costas L
Co-investigators: Frias J
Ref.: FI20/00031
Amount awarded: 82.400 EUR
Duration: 2021-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
Project title: WOMEC ADVANCED: NUEVAS APROXIMACIONES PARA EL DIAGNOSTICO DE CANCER DE ENDOMETRIO
Principal investigator: Eva Colas
Co-investigators: Marina Rigau, Matias-Guiu X, Costas L, et al
Ref.: CPP2021-008440
Amount awarded: 1098059, 48 EUR
Duration: 2022-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Contratos Predoctorales de Formación en Investigación en salud (PFIS)
Principal investigator: Mesia R
Co-investigators: Mena, M
Ref.: FI20/00103
Amount awarded: 89.900 EUR
Duration: 2021-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Contratos PFIS: Contratos predoctorales de formación en investigación en salud - AES 2019 - ISCIII
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: FI19/00200
Amount awarded: 82.400 EUR
Duration: 2020-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: GlaxoSmithKline,S.A (
Project title: Early detection of endometrial cancer based on genomic exploitation of urine samples
Principal investigator: Costas L
Duration: 2022-2023

Funding body: CIBER
Project title: IMMAGE – Opportunistic body composition assessment from routine imaging data in patients with multiple myeloma
Principal investigator: Casabonne D y Martin V
Amount awarded: 50000 EUR
Duration: 2022-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp
Project title: PRevalence of Oral hpv infection , a Global aSSessment. The PROGRESS study
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Co-investigators: Pavon MA
Ref.: 2489063
Amount awarded: 579.279,46 USD
Duration: 2020-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp
Project title: Observational study to assess the absolute burden BuRden of HPV -related head and neck cancers, The BROADEN study
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Co-investigators: Pavon MA
Ref.: 2489057
Amount awarded: 1.474.590,29 USD
Duration: 2020-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: CIBER
Project title: Acciones de Movilidad CIBERESP 2023
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: ACCIONES DE MOVILIDAD CIBERESP 2023 - 2ª Convocatoria
Duration: 2023-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: AECC
Project title: Genetic and metabolomics screening towards the precision medicine in cancer prevention
Principal investigator: Víctor Moreno
Ref.: GCTRA18022MORE_AGT8
Amount awarded: 500000,00 EUR
Duration: 2018-2023
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Investigando el papel de las infecciones y el microbioma intestinal en la conexión obesidad-mieloma múltiple en el marco del estudio español IBERICAT
Principal investigator: Casabonne D
Ref.: PI20/00288
Amount awarded: 185.130 EUR
Duration: 2020-2025
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Factores de riesgo ambientales, ocupacionales y serológicos asociados al cáncer de endometrio, en el marco del estudio Screenwide y el consorcio E2C2.
Principal investigator: Costas L
Ref.: PI19/01835
Amount awarded: 49.610 EUR
Duration: 2020-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: La Caixa
Project title: Covid-19 in Spain: Social dynamics, mental health and inequalities
Principal investigator: Kogevinas M
Ref.: SR20-01025
Amount awarded: 100.000
Duration: 2021-2022
State: Awarded

Funding body: European Commission - EC
Project title: Translational studies of HEAD and neck cancer in South America and Europe (HEADSPACE)
Principal investigator: Brennan P
Co-investigators: Alemany L
Ref.: SC1-BHC-18-2018
Amount awarded: 249.985 EUR
Duration: 2019-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: Fundació Marató TV3
Project title: Infection acquisition in early life and health outcomes in childhood
Principal investigator: Kogevinas M
Co-investigators: Casabonne D
Ref.: (437/U/2018)
Amount awarded: 199875 EUR
Duration: 2019-2022
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Valor pronóstico y predictivo de factores nutricionales y hábito tabáquico en pacientes de cáncer de faringe según su asociación a virus
Principal investigator: Mesia R
Co-investigators: Mena M
Ref.: PI19/00363
Amount awarded: 43.560 EUR
Duration: 2020-2022
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Ayudas para la movilidad del personal investigados (Modalidad M-AES)
Principal investigator: Costas L
Co-investigators: Frias J
Ref.: MV21/00061
Amount awarded: 14490
Duration: 2022-2022
State: Awarded

Funding body: Roche
Project title: Conveni per anàlisi bioinformàtic de Screenwide
Principal investigator: Costas L
Duration: 2020-2022
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Identificación de biomarcadores pronósticos virale sy genéticos mediante técnicas no invasivas en pacientes diagnosticados de cáncer de orofaringe VPH-relacionado
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Co-investigators: Taberna M
Ref.: PI18/00377
Amount awarded: 159.720 EUR
Duration: 2019-2021
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Contratos Río Hortega convocatòria 2019 – Acción Estratégica en Salud 2017-2020.
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: CM19/00216
Amount awarded: 53.732 EUR
Duration: 2020-2021
State: Awarded

Funding body: Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp
Project title: Effectiveness of HPV vaccination in the prevention of oral HPV infection in a young population
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Co-investigators: Brotons M
Ref.: MISP 58230
Amount awarded: 208.000,92 EUR
Duration: 2018-2024
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Ayudas para la movilidad de personal investigador contratado en el marco de la AES (M-AES)
Principal investigator: Peremiquel-Trillas P
Ref.: MV20/00029
Amount awarded: 12.650 EUR
Duration: 2021-2021
State: Awarded

Funding body: GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
Project title: Acció instrumental d’incorporació de científics i tecnòlegs - PERIS 2016-2020; Nous desenvolupaments tecnològics en citologies líquides
Ref.: SLT006/17/76 PERIS Costas L/Frías J
Amount awarded: 79242,03 EUR
Duration: 2018-2021
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: ¿Podríamos prevenir la leucemia linfocítica crónica? Investigamos el papel de las infecciones en sus precursores, las linfocitosis B monoclonales (MBL) IBERISAL
Principal investigator: Casabonne D
Ref.: PI17/01280
Amount awarded: 100.430 EUR
Duration: 2017-2020
State: Awarded

Funding body: European Commission - EC
Project title: MEsHH - DNA MEthylation for HPV-related disease among women living with HIV - MSCA-IF-2017
Principal investigator: de Sanjosé Llongueras S, Alemany L, Pavon MA
Ref.: Proposal number: 796581
Amount awarded: 158121,60 EUR
Duration: 2018-2020
State: Awarded

Funding body: AGAUR
Project title: Grup Epidemiologia Molecular i Genètica en Infeccions i Càncer (SGR 2017-2019) - 2017 SGR 1085
Principal investigator: Alemany, L
Ref.: 2017 SGR 1085
Amount awarded: 34.568,67 EUR
Duration: 2018-2019
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Screening signature of endometrial and ovarian cancers: options for early detection (SCREENWIDE)
Principal investigator: Costas L
Co-investigators: Group 1: Costas L. Group 2: Ponce J. Group 3: Piulats JM. Group 4: Aytes A. Group 5: Matias-Guiu X
Ref.: PIE16/00049
Amount awarded: 508205 EUR
Duration: 2017-2021
State: Awarded

Funding body: GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
Project title: Marcadors pronòstic i predictius del virus del papil-loma humà en pacients diagnosticats de càncer d'orofaringe a Catalunya
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: SLT002/16/00404
Amount awarded: 104.821 EUR
Duration: 2017-2019
State: Awarded

Funding body: INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III - ISCIII
Project title: Detección de anticuerpos contra la oncoproteína E6 del VPH16: validación de un nuevo y prometedor biomarcador de cribado para la prevención del cáncer de orofaringe asociado al VPH
Principal investigator: Alemany L
Ref.: PI15/01205
Amount awarded: 82.125 EUR
Duration: 2016-2020
State: Awarded