For the four best projects for research in the field of bioethics.

This is the most popular section of the Foundation’s awards, with the number of applicants for grants increasing year by year. The web page for the research grant awards are the most visited on the Foundation’s website, and have the highest number of file downloads.

There were thirty-eight applicants in this section, with the following research projects receiving grants:

- To the team directed by Juan Antonio Barcia Albacar from the General University Hospital of Valencia for his work Integrated treatment of the patient with cerebral tumours. Communication and decision-taking as key elements in the promotion of well-being.

- Antonio Casado da Rocha of the Department of the Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology at the University of the Basque Country for his work A philosophical approach to Huntington’s disease: designing an ethical framework for research in molecular genetics.

- To the team led by Armando Ortiz Pommier of the Medicine Faculty and the Clinica Alemana at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile for his work Accompanying the patient: a learning experience about the meaning of illness?.

- Jordi Vallverdú i Segura, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona for his work The frontiers of bioethical language: a new way of thinking.