The IDIBAPS Executive Committee has approved the leadership transition of the research group 'Inflammation and repair in respiratory diseases'. Rosa Faner has taken over as head of the group from Àlvar Agustí, who stepped down upon his retirement. Agustí remains affiliated with the Institute as an emeritus researcher.
Rosa Faner holds a degree in Biology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and earned her PhD in Immunology from the same university in 2006. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Banc de Sang i Teixits and at the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She was a Miguel Servet researcher and, since 2023, has been a Serra Húnter Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona. She has published more than 150 scientific papers in the field of the biological and clinical heterogeneity of chronic respiratory diseases and, among other projects, holds an ERC Consolidator Grant. In 2025, she was awarded the distinction of ICREA Acadèmia.
