The CIRSE 2026 Congress, held in Copenhagen from 5–9 September, provided an important opportunity to share new clinical evidence from iVascular’s peripheral and endovascular portfolio, including results from the ILICO and OPAL studies, both supported by BCCC. ILICO: encouraging 1-year outcomes for iCover At CIRSE 2026, Dr. Bahaa Nasr presented the 1-year outcomes of the… Read more »
In this edition of #BCCCStories, Isabelle Bazsó, Director of Operations at BCCC, reflects on leadership, purpose, and the people behind clinical research, while sharing her perspective on building a growing non-profit CRO.
New Multisite Study Highlights Regulatory Fragmentation, Operational Bottlenecks, and the Critical Role of Investigators. A new study, led by Hospital Clinic de Barcelona and Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona – Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) in close collaboration with BCCC, examining the operational challenges and site-selection determinants at six European university hospitals when conducting Early Feasibility Studies (EFS) for medical devices has been published… Read more »
Barcelona Clinical Coordinating Center (BCCC), serving as the European Authorized Representative of Revamp Medical Inc. and responsible for the coordination of study activities in Spain, announces the successful completion of the DORAYA-HF OUS EFS study evaluating the safety, feasibility, and clinical performance of the Doraya Catheter for the treatment of volume overload in patients hospitalized… Read more »
Barcelona Clinical Coordinating Center (BCCC), acting as the national coordinating contract research organization (CRO) for Spain, celebrates the successful completion of patient recruitment in the PRIMARY study evaluating the long-term safety and effectiveness of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) compared with surgical repair in patients with primary degenerative mitral regurgitation. Sponsored by the National Institutes of… Read more »
The CHOICE-2 randomized clinical trial, coordinated by Hospital Clínic Barcelona and IDIBAPS, has been published in JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association). The study demonstrates that administering intra-arterial alteplase immediately after mechanical thrombectomy significantly improves functional outcomes in severe ischemic stroke. The centralized analysis of brain imaging data across the 14-site Spanish trial was conducted by the BCCC Imaging Core Lab. Key Results Among the 440 patients enrolled,… Read more »