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19 Jun | 2025

BBRC joins AD-RIDDLE’s second General Assembly in London

This interdisciplinary initiative is designed to provide healthcare providers with a set of innovative tools to improve disease identification and management.

18 Jun | 2025

The BBRC hosts and actively participates in the Euro-PAD 2025 symposium

Almost 100 participants gathered to discuss the latest advancements in neuroimaging and biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as to share updates from the Euro-PAD initiative over the past year.

26 May | 2025

New blood biomarker panel accurately detects early Alzheimer’s risk

This fully automated blood test could become a scalable, minimally invasive tool to detect and monitor Alzheimer’s-related changes long before symptoms appear.

15 May | 2025

We receive funding to develop an innovative PET imaging tool for Alzheimer’s neuroinflammation

With a 3-year duration, this project will allow us to explore the role of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease using the novel [18F]F-DED PET tracer, in collaboration with LMU Munich and Life Molecular Imaging

12 May | 2025

Joan Vives, new Administrative Director of the Foundation and the BBRC

We are strengthening our management structure at a time of sustained growth, with more than 250 employees, 6 research groups and a membership base approaching 100,000

30 Apr | 2025

Increasing physical activity in middle age may protect against alzheimer's disease

The study, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, involved 337 people from the ALFA longitudinal cohort of the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), with the support of the “la Caixa” Foundation.

29 Apr | 2025

We investigate, we move forward: the 2024 Impact Report is now available

In this document we collect the most notable activity of 2024, a year of key scientific advances and new strategic alliances that consolidate a change in the approach to Alzheimer's disease

28 Apr | 2025

Dr. Sandra Acosta leads a new research group at the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center to study alzheimer’s progression

The group will work with three-dimensional cellular models (organoids) that replicate the structure of the human brain to study the origin and progression of diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

16 Apr | 2025

The European Commission approves lecanemab for the treatment of early-stage Alzheimer's disease

This approval is a key step forward in the development of treatments that target the biological mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease.