RESEARCH GROUPS

Hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery (HBP) and liver transplantation

Overview

Team

Publications

Patents

Dissemination

34

Number of publications

73.53
%

% Q1

29.41
%

% D1

32.35
%

% Leadership

54.55
%

% Female Leadership

2.80

CROWN (2021-2025)

29.41
%

HCP10% (2021-2025)

73.53
%

% Open access

61.76
%

% International Collaboration

1

Highly cited papers / HCP 1% (2021-2025)

0

Publications in high-IF journals with high Altmetric scores

4

Number of Ongoing Projectes (total)

0

International ongoing projects

1

Number of New projects (total)

0

International new projects

0

Number of Active clinical Trials

0

Number of New Clinical Trials

0

Number of Theses

In parallel to these outstanding clinical results, the HBP and Liver Transplantation program remains a leading reference in locally advanced pancreatic cancer and in the application of artificial intelligence to liver transplantation and pancreatitis. Furthermore, the intellectual property registration for the LiverColor project has been updated, and the KidneyColor and PancreatIA projects have been duly protected and further strengthened. The publications from the doctoral theses with European International Mention by Dr. Mar Dalmau, under the supervision of Dr. Concepción Gómez-Gavara, and Dr. Laura Vidal, under the supervision of Dr. Elisabeth Pando, bring the group’s lines of research to completion.

CORE/MISSIONS

  • AI, Data, Imaging & Digital Health
  • Innovative & Advanced Therapies
  • Transplant & Immunomodulation

PROGRAMS

  • Robotic Surgery & Simulation
Group Leader

Concepción Gómez - Gavara

Principal Investigator (PI)

Concepción Gómez Gavara, Elizabeth Pando Rau, Jesús Quintero Bernabeu

Researchers

Itxarone Bilbao Aguirre, Cristina Dopazo Taboada, Mireia Caralt Barba, Piero Alberti Delgado, Laia Blanco Cuso, Maria Mercada Hally, Cristina Padrós Fornieles, José Andrés Molino Gahete

PhD Students

Sotiris Papadiamantis, Laura Vidal Piñeiro, Mar Dalmau Romero, Martín Huerta García, Rodrigo Mata Mata, Nair Fernandes Montes, Sara Villasante Mateos, Pablo Lopez Lusa, Kevin Diaz Alvarez, Claudia Cabau Talern, Isabel García Barba

Lab Technicians

Esther Delgado Pascual, Raquel Massip Arribas, Nikita Bilbao Aguirre, Nicolau Farre Saurí

Concepción Gómez-Gavara 1, Zenichi Morise 2, Victor López-López 3, Christoph Kuemmerli 4, Daniel Esono 5, Kazuharu Igarashi 6, Kohei Mishima 6, Akishige Kanazawa 7, Shogo Tanaka 8, Shoji Kubo 8, Satoshi Nemoto 9, Goro Honda 9, Kazuteru Monden 10, Masaki Ueno 11, Yasuhito Iwao 12, Naoto Gotohda 13, Masashi Kudo 13, Hiroyuki Nitta 14, Satoshi Amano 14, Rafael Díaz-Nieto 15, Alex Gordon-Weeks 15, Serena Langella 16, Alessandro Ferrero 16, Yuichiro Otsuka 17, Hironori Kaneko 17, Riccardo Boetto 18, Umberto Cillo 18, Daniel D'Souza 19, Pablo E Serrano 19, Giammauro Berardi 20, Marco Angrisani 20, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre 20, Parissa Tabrizian 21, Allen Yu 21, Brian K P Goh 22, Takuya Minagawa 23, Osamu Itano 23, Daisuke Asano 24, Minoru Tanabe 24, Marcello Di Martino 25, Elena Martín-Pérez 25, Simone Famularo 26, Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada 26, Guido Torzilli 26, Jaime Arthur Pirola Krüger 27, Paulo Herman 27, Mario Giuffrida 28, Ramon Charco 1, Mikel Gastaca 29, Waclaw Holowko 30, Stephanie Truant 31, Kit-Man Ho 32, Kai-Chi Cheng 32, Rafael José Maurette 33, Laura-Ann Blatt 34, Tatiana Belda 35, Yuta Abe 36, Shuichiro Uemura 36, Go Wakabayashi 6
Laparoscopic versus open liver resection in patients aged at least 80 years: retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study
BJS Open . 2025 Oct 30;9(6):zraf102.
DOI: doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf102.
IF: 4.5

Mar Dalmau 1 2, Ramón Charco 2, Itxarone Bilbao 1 2 3, Cristina Dopazo 1 2 3, Mireia Caralt 2, José Andrés Molino 4, Concepción Gómez-Gavara 1 2 3
Heparinase I treatment to overcome RNA quantification interference in heparinized liver donor samples: One size fits all?
PLoS One . 2025 May 12;20(5):e0322899. eCollection 2025.
DOI: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0322899.
IF: 3.2

Martín Huerta 1 2, Mar Dalmau 1 2, Nair Fernandes 1 2, Cristina Dopazo 1 2, Mireia Caralt 1, Laura Vidal 1, Ramón Charco 1, Itxarone Bilbao 1 2, Concepción Gómez-Gavara 1 2
Brightening the path to safe liver transplants: the role of ICG fluorescence in biliary anastomosis
BMJ Surg Interv Health Technol . 2025 Jun 9;7(1):e000322. eCollection 2025.
DOI: doi: 10.1136/bmjsit-2024-000322.
IF: 1.6

E Rangelova 1, T F Stoop 2, T M E van Ramshorst 3, M Ali 4, E A van Bodegraven 5, A A Javed 6, D Hashimoto 7, E Steyerberg 8, A Banerjee 9, A Jain 10, A Sauvanet 11, A Serrablo 12, A Giani 13, A Giardino 14, A Zerbi 15, A Arshad 16, A G Wijma 17, A Coratti 18, A Zironda 19, A Socratous 20, A Rojas 21, A Halimi 22, A Ejaz 23, A Oba 24, B Y Patel 16, B Björnsson 25, B N Reames 26, B Tingstedt 27, B K P Goh 28, C Payá-Llorente 29, C D Del Pozo 29, C González-Abós 30, C Medin 31, C H J van Eijck 32, C de Ponthaud 33, C Takishita 34, C Schwabl 35, C Månsson 36, C Ricci 37, C A Thiels 19, D Douchi 38, D L Hughes 39, D Kilburn 40, D Flanking 41, D Kleive 42, D S Silva 43, B H Edil 10, E Pando 44, E Moltzer 45, E F Kauffman 46, E Warren 31, E Bozkurt 47, E Sparrelid 48, E Thoma 49, E Verkolf 32, F Ausania 50, F Giannone 51, F J Hüttner 49, F Burdio 52, F R Souche 53, F Berrevoet 54, F Daams 4, F Motoi 55, G Saliba 48, G Kazemier 4, G Roeyen 56, G Nappo 15, G Butturini 14, G Ferrari 13, G Kito Fusai 9, G Honda 57, G Sergeant 58, H Karteszi 59, H Takami 60, H Suto 61, I Matsumoto 62, I Mora-Oliver 63, I Frigerio 14, J M Fabre 53, J Chen 40, J G Sham 64, J Davide 43, J Urdzik 36, J de Martino 33, K Nielsen 65, K Okano 61, K Kamei 62, K Okada 66, K Tanaka 67, K J Labori 68, K E Goodsell 69, L Alberici 70, L Webber 71, L Kirkov 53, L de Franco 18, M Miyashita 72, M Maglione 73, M Gramellini 15, M Ramera 74, M J Amaral 75, M Ramaekers 76, M J Truty 19, M A van Dam 77, M W J Stommel 45, M Petrikowski 78, M Imamura 79, M Hayashi 60, M D'Hondt 80, M Brunner 81, M E Hogg 21, C Zhang 26, M Á Suárez-Muñoz 82, M D Luyer 76, M Unno 38, M Mizuma 38, M Janot 78, M A Sahakyan 83, N B Jamieson 84, O R Busch 5, O Bilge 47, O Belyaev 78, O Franklin 85, P Sánchez-Velázquez 52, P Pessaux 51, P S Holka 27, P Ghorbani 48, R Casadei 37, R Sartoris 86, R D Schulick 87, R Grützmann 83, R Sutcliffe 65, R Mata 44, R B Patel 23, R Takahashi 55, S Rodriguez Franco 87, S S Cabús 88, S Hirano 67, S Gaujoux 33, S Festen 89, S Kozono 34, S K Maithel 31, S M Chai 90, S Yamaki 7, S van Laarhoven 91, J S D Mieog 77, T Murakami 79, T Codjia 92, T Sumiyoshi 66, T M Karsten 89, T Nakamura 67, T Sugawara 93, U Boggi 46, V Hartman 56, V E de Meijer 17, W Bartholomä 94, W Kwon 95, Y X Koh 28, Y Cho 95, Y Takeyama 62, Y Inoue 72, Y Nagakawa 34, Y Kawamoto 57, Y Ome 57, Z Soonawalla 39, K Uemura 66, C L Wolfgang 96, J Y Jang 95, R Padbury 40, S Satoi 97, W Messersmith 98, J W Wilmink 99, M Abu Hilal 14, M G Besselink 5, M Del Chiaro 87; European Consortium on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery (E-MIPS); International Consortium on Advanced Pancreatic Surgery
The impact of neoadjuvant therapy in patients with left-sided resectable pancreatic cancer: an international multicenter study
Ann Oncol . 2025 May;36(5):529-542.
DOI: doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2024.12.015.
IF: 65.4

Jose Andres Molino Gahete 1 2, Cristina Dopazo 3, Concepcion Gomez Guevara 3, María Mercadal Hally 4, Cristina Padros Fornieles 4, Jesus Quintero Bernabeu 5, Ernest Hidalgo Llompart 1 6
Ex-Situ Modified Segment 2 Graft After Left Lateral Sector Procurement in Pediatric Liver Transplantation: Farewell to Delayed Abdominal Closure?
Pediatr Transplant . 2025 Nov;29(7):e70176.
DOI: doi: 10.1111/petr.70176.
IF: 1.4

LiverColor Plus
Principal Investigator: Concepción Gómez Gavara
Agency: ISCIII
Funding: 90000€
Period: 2025-2028