SJD and the Amancio Ortega Foundation Will Create a Research Center for Rare Diseases

Sant Joan de Déu (SJD) will have a new rare disease research center. The Amancio Ortega Foundation, linked to the owner of the fashion giant Inditex, will invest 59 million euros in building a center with which to carry out genomic studies and develop cell and gene therapies, deep stimulation or neuromodulation.

The research center will be called Únicas SJD precision medicine and will have 14,000 square meters distributed over six floors.

The opening of the new research center for rare diseases is scheduled for 2026

Work on the new research center started at the end of February with the laying of the first stone. In a statement, SJD noted that the building will become one of the three largest complexes in the world dedicated to rare diseases when it comes into operation.

Already then SJD announced that the building financed by the Amancio Ortega Foundation will be one of the nodes of the Únicas network , a network made up of thirty hospital centers throughout Spain promoted by the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and the Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases (Feder ).

The research center will be part of the Porta Diagonal project, which also plans to house a biomedical campus

The new building is part of the new structures of the Porta Diagonal urban project, previously called Porta Barcelona, ​​which foresees the creation of a biomedical campus in the area to accelerate the implementation of emerging technologies in the field of health.

At the end of January, the green light was given to move the Hospital Clínic in the Catalan capital to the sports area of ​​the University of Barcelona (UB) campus on Diagonal. The transfer agreement was signed with a broad institutional agreement to build a 290,000 square meter health campus. The promoters of the initiative assure that the new center will host the healthcare activity that was already carried out on Villarroel Street in one of the “most advanced campuses in Europe.”

In this agreement for the construction of the Clínic Campus, the name of the initiative, its execution deadlines are not yet specified: it is just a commitment to urban reorganization between the municipalities involved in the project, Barcelona, ​​l’Hospitalet and Esplugues del Llobregat.

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