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Inaugurated in 1948 by Dr. Alexander Fleming, the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) is a center of excellence for biomedical and health research.

IMIM is part of the Parc de Salut Mar consortium, and it is made up of more than 700 professionals, with a mixed composition of IMIM researchers and clinical researchers from Hospital del MAR and other academic researchers from UPF and UAB.

IMIM has the recognition of CERCA as a Catalan Research Institute of Excellence, ISCIII as Health Research Institute and HRS4R with the HR Excellence in Research.

Its proximity to Hospital del Mar and the Campus Universitari Mar, and its location in a solid scientific ecosystem like PRBB, means that IMIM is in a privileged biomedical enclave in Barcelona. IMIM’s translational research is carried out through five well-structured research programs:

• Biomedical Informatics, directed by Mar Albà
• Cancer, directed by Joan Albanell
• Epidemiology and Public Health, directed by Jordi Alonso
• Neurosciences, directed by Rafael de la Torre
• Translacional Clinical Research, directed by Xavier Nogués