Year Dr. Frederic Duran i Jordà (1905-1957)

The College of Doctors of Barcelona (CoMB) is promoting this 2025 with the collaboration of the Blood and Tissue Bank, the Dr. Frederic Duran i Jordà Year (1905-1957) on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of his birth, in recognition of one of the most relevant and forgotten figures in the history of Catalonia, and creator of the first modern blood bank in the world.

Events

Inaugural event at the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona

Inuaugural event of the Year Dr. Frederic Duran i Jordà (1905-1957).April 10 in the Auditorium of the Official College of Doctors of Barcelona (CoMB) with the presentations:

  • Blood transfusion before Frederic Duran i Jordà with Anna Ester Condins, a doctor specializing in Hematology and Hemotherapy. Secretary of the Catalan Society of History of Medicine.

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    The need for blood on the war front with Joan Ramón Grífols Ronda, doctor specializing in Haematology and Haemotherapy. Blood and Tissue Bank.

  • Hospital 18: history of the building with Carles Herv's Puyal, specialist in Anesthesiology. Vice-President of the Museum Foundation History of Medicine of Catalonia.

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    The Duran method with Miquel Lozano Molero, doctor specializing in Hematology and Hemotherapy. Hemotherapy and hemostasis service. Hospital Clínic Barcelona.

  • The exile of Duran i Jordà with Genís Carrasco Gómez, specialist in Intensive Medicine. CoMB Academic Studies Unit.

  • Moderator: Miquel Bruguera, Director of the Academic Studies Unit of the CoMB

Event at the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC): headquarters of the first blood bank in the world

Second act dedicated to the commemorative year of Dr. Frederic Duran i Jordà (1905-1957): June 18 at the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC). Scientific conference entitled "Pass, present and future of the work of Frederic Duran i Jordà". The event included an on-site guided tour of when the Montjuïc building hosted the first modern blood bank in the world, known as a Hospital de Sang N. 18, with images placed in the same places where they were originally taken.


Careful research has allowed us to discover for the first time where each of the spaces of the first blood bank in the world was located exactly.