From the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and our research center, the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), we have published the new Impact Report 2023; a summary of the most important information on the scientific, social and economic activities of both entities.

Under the motto «We investigate, we move forward», we continue to work for a future without Alzheimer's and to ensure that addressing this disease is a priority in all areas of action. “In the global panorama of Alzheimer's research, this has been a year marked by an important paradigm shift in addressing the disease due to the approval in the United States of new treatments that are coming, but have not yet reached Europe. In this context, our work in research and raising awareness of Alzheimer's is more necessary than ever,” explains the director of the Foundation, Arcadi Navarro.

More Alzheimer's research and awareness

2023 has been a year in which important advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's: new drugs, blood biomarkers, genetics.

2023 has been the year of the delivery of the first scholarships Pasqual Maragall Researchers Programme, the most important private program in Spain dedicated to research on Alzheimer's or age-related neurodegenerative diseases, and of which we are already working on a second edition.

Through our research, we have validated with artificial intelligence a new biomarker of brain aging, we have described the Genetic profiles of people at higher risk of developing the disease, and for the first time we have brought together More than 80 international experts to discuss biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases at our center, the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center. We have also concluded that Barcelona is one of the most productive cities in dementia research in the world, through the results extracted from the report «Spain on the world map of scientific production on dementia and Alzheimer's».

One more year, we have continued supporting more than 300 people through the more than 40 groups in person and online. And we have continued working to change the social consideration of the disease by organizing More than 50 talks Throughout Spain, the film festival about the brain Brain Film Fest, and a day in the Senate to demand more public funding for research, among others.

All this and much more has been possible thanks to the support of our partners, patrons, collaborators and participants in our studies, and to the continued work of the teams at the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center.

All the information here:

See the Impact Report 2023 (in PDF)

See the Digital Impact Report.