The Health Research Institute of Santiago (IDIS), created in January 2008, is one of the 13 health research institutes accredited in the whole of Spain by the Carlos III Health Institute and the only one in Galicia. The IDIS is a system of innovation and knowledge transfer plays a key part in translational matters and optimizes and expands the historical collaboration and synergistic potential between the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Santiago University Hospital Complex, entities to whom over 50 groups from the Institute are linked.

The mission of the IDIS is to facilitate effective innovation in health services through the management of biomedical knowledge created by its 500 researchers. These strong capabilities have come to fruition through the development of a high level research within the hospital supported by IDICHUS Foundation, which manages and potentiates the Hospital Complex and IDIS research.