Grifols is sponsoring, along with Professor Vicente Arroyo, the Grifols Chair
for the Study of Cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is a very common disease and
represents the seventh leading cause of death in Europe, with an annual
mortality rate in developed countries exceeding 200,000 persons.
Professor Arroyo has been Director of the Department of Medicine at the
University of Barcelona and of the Esther Kóplowitz Medical Reseach
Center.
This private chair with an international reach was created to
promote Reseach and Education of liver diseases, especially cirrhosis.
In this sense, the academic nature of the Grifols Chair complements the
clinical research work carried out since 2009 by the European Consortium
for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, which currently involves the
participation of more than 80 university hospitals in 25 countries. The
consortium is supported by the European Association for the Study of the
Liver (EASL). The Grifols Chair will primarily focus on translational
research and will collaborate closely with the Clinic Foundation for
Biomedical Research (FCRB), an institution that contributed to the
development of the consortium.
Both the Grifols Chair and the
European Consortium for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure are supported
by the European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure
(EF-CLIF), a recently created independent European medical foundation
headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, which numbers Grifols, Professor
Arroyo and the EASL among its patrons.
