Dr Susana Puig is the leader of the IDIBAPS research group Melanoma: imaging genetics and immunology, the head of the Dermatology Department at Hospital Clínic Barcelona and a professor at the University of Barcelona. This triple affiliation confirms the campus model that integrates Research, Teaching and Assistance and that will continue with the construction of the new Campus Clínic - UB on Diagonal in Barcelona in the coming years. She is also a group leader at CIBERER and a board member of several scientific societies. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona and specialised in Dermatology in 1992, earning her doctorate in 2000. She has participated in over 30 competitive research projects and more than 50 clinical trials, which have led her to publish more than 500 scientific articles and direct nearly 40 PhD theses and Master’s theses.
It is the first time in IDIBAPS’ nearly thirty-year history that a woman holds this position. The previous directors have been Drs. Joan Rodés, Ramon Gomis and Elías Campo.
About IDIBAPS
The Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) carries out excellent biomedical research and investigates the most common diseases in our society. Our mission is translational research; that is, we look to ensure that the questions that arise at the patient’s bedside find answers in the laboratory and that advances made in the laboratory are translated rapidly to the patient.
Approximately 2,000 professionals work out at our institution. Around 100 multidisciplinary groups carry out relevant research, as demonstrated by more than 1,200 original articles published every year. IDIBAPS is one of the leading biomedical research centres in Spain and has a strong international reach.
IDIBAPS is the result of the integration in 2023 of the Hospital Clínic Foundation for Biomedical Research (FCRB), created in 1989, and the consortium August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, created in 1996. It is a nonprofit foundation. Representatives of the Catalan government’s ministries of Health and of Research and Universities, Hospital Clínic Barcelona and the University of Barcelona sit on its board of trustees.
IDIBAPS is a CERCA centre and has been accredited as a healthcare research institute by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III since 2009. It is also part of the Science Foundation Centers of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and of the Network of Hospital and Biosanitary Clinical Research Management Institutions (REGIC).
