Research
Research and innovation have been part of the Jaime Planas Foundation's DNA from the very beginning. Throughout its history, the Foundation has invested in developing its own areas of research, introducing new techniques and ensuring the continuous education of its teams.
Its scientific work has been particularly significant in fields including tissue engineering, immunomodulation and regenerative medicine, with research focused on areas such as the development of new tissues and the control of transplant rejection. Some of this work has received recognition through initiatives including La Marató de TV3.
The spirit established by Dr Jaime Planas continues to keep the institution open to scientific and technological progress, with one constant objective: to turn research into better solutions for patients.
Manifesto
Why do we exist?
The answer seems obvious. To treat patients. But it is not enough. Because a patient can be treated by one great professional. Our house has a far more powerful reason. That the patient receives the best possible care regardless of who attends them.
Our clinic is a place where knowledge circulates so freely that any professional can keep growing. Because when knowledge stops moving, medicine stops advancing.
And when medicine stops advancing, the patient stops being at the centre, however much everyone says otherwise. Our house is not built around talent. It is built around learning. It does not matter who discovers a technique. What matters is that nobody has to discover it again from scratch.
It does not matter who solves a problem. What matters is that the solution becomes part of the collective intelligence of the organisation.
Our reason for existing is to keep knowledge from being lost.
That is our true heritage. Not a building in Barcelona. Not a brand.
We are knowledge that improves every time it changes hands. We work for people we have not met yet. For professionals who have not been born yet. And for patients who will never know who made the decisions that ended up improving their lives.
That is the quiet work of our house. Building continuity. Because surgery may last six hours. A consultation, thirty minutes. Our way of understanding medicine, more than half a century.
