{"id":114603,"date":"2026-06-18T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iispv.cat\/around-sixty-researchers-from-across-the-country-create-a-study-network-on-genetics-in-psychiatry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:46:08","slug":"around-sixty-researchers-from-across-the-country-create-a-study-network-on-genetics-in-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/around-sixty-researchers-from-across-the-country-create-a-study-network-on-genetics-in-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"Around sixty researchers from across the country create a study network on genetics in psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>IRB CatSud and Institut Pere Mata promote the first conference on mental health and genetics with the participation of the CIBERSAM mental health network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Around sixty researchers from all over the country, from both basic and clinical research fields, have participated in the first national conference on genetics in psychiatry, held in Reus this Wednesday and organized by the Hospital Universitari Institut Pere Mata (HUIPM) and the Institut de Recerca Biom\u00e8dica Catalunya Sud (IRB CatSud), with the participation of the CIBERSAM network (Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n Biom\u00e9dica en Red en Salud Mental). One of the main achievements of the meeting, held at the HUIPM facilities, has been the promotion of a shared proposal to create a stable network or working group in genetics in psychiatry, with a long-term vision and with the aim that it may evolve into a future scientific society.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During the conference, strategic lines were discussed, such as promoting collaborative work, sharing data and knowledge, or creating a repository of genetic data, as well as the need to strengthen the transfer of results to clinical practice and society.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting has represented a turning point in the field of genetics in psychiatry, since until now researchers specialised in the genetics of psychiatric disorders in the country had never met in a specific forum. In recent years, the growth of research in this field and the emergence of results with potential clinical application have favoured the consolidation of a critical mass that has made it possible to promote this initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the first conference held by specialist researchers in genetics of psychiatric diseases, and the reason is that it is a relatively innovative field. Over the years, the researchers we met at conferences said we had to do something together and, at the end of last October, at an international psychiatric genetics conference in Mexico, we decided to do it and chose to hold the first conference in Reus,\u201d said the research director of HUIPM and deputy director of IRB CatSud, Elisabet Vilella.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, the different participating teams also shared their lines of work and presented the latest advances in genetics in psychiatry, with the aim of generating synergies and exploring new ways of collaboration. \u201cOur group presented work related to the development and characterisation of neuronal lines from patients with first psychotic episodes, where we look for biological signals to help find the best diagnosis so that there can be the most personalised treatment possible, for example in the development of schizophrenia,\u201d explained the researcher from the Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n Sanitaria de Valencia (INCLIVA), Ricardo Ruiz Miguel, one of the speakers at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers also highlighted that initiatives like this help to accelerate the transfer of scientific knowledge into real applications and to promote collaboration between research groups, also incorporating work with patient associations as one of the key axes for the future.<\/p>\n<p>With this first edition, the conference has laid the foundations to become a regular reference meeting at the national level, with the intention of continuing to strengthen scientific cooperation and to increase the impact of research in mental health for the benefit of society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRB CatSud and Institut Pere Mata promote the first conference on mental health and genetics with the participation of the CIBERSAM mental health network Around sixty researchers from all over the country, from both basic and clinical research fields, have participated in the first national conference on genetics in psychiatry, held in Reus this Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":114583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1883,2073,1026,1831,1478,1479,2092],"tags":[2979,3026,2982,2998,2804,2999,2271],"class_list":["post-114603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualitat-en","category-docencia-i-formacio-en","category-noticies-iispv-en","category-press-releases","category-publicacions-en","category-recerca-en","category-temes-de-salut-en","tag-cibersam-en","tag-day","tag-genetics","tag-institut-pere-mata-en","tag-irb-catsud-en","tag-psiquiatria-en","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irbcatsud.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}