Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio

Institution

Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

Project Team

Dr Javier Martin Broto

Dr Beatriz Barrios

Dr Nadia Hindi Muñiz

Dr David Moura

Mr Davide di Lernia

Marta Renshaw Calderon

Institution Summary

Opened in 1955 in Seville, the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) is a major public hospital in the Andalusia region.

The hospital is actively involved in a range of sarcoma clinical trials and molecular research studies and has been recognised nationally as one of Spain’s Reference Centres, Services and Units (Centros, Servicios y Unidades de Referencia (CSUR)) for sarcoma treatment.

At a European level, the HUVR and the Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla provide expertise and specialist knowledge on sarcomas and are one of the accredited centres of the European Reference Network for rare adult solid cancers (EURACAN).