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Significant Activities
Projects
The projects active in 2015 were as follows:
NATIONAL PROJECTS
Financing Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• Sara Borrell Contract.
• Diet patterns, antioxidants and biomarkers of oxi- dant-antioxidant status in the EPIC-Granada and EPIC-Gipuzkoa cohort (European Prospective In- vestigation into Cancer and Nutrition).
• Differential effect of socioeconomic position and the geographical area on the impact of road safe- ty policies in mortality by road accidents in Spain.
• Evaluation of preventive and therapeutic interven- tions against infection by the hepatitis C virus.
The CIBERESP’s participation in one of the three CIBER interdisciplinary excellence programmes fi- nanced by the AES should be mentioned. The aim of the programme is to identify the mechanisms of inflammatory processes which are detected on one hand in the obese or type 2 diabetics and also in patients with Crohn’s disease. This project is led by the CIBERDEM and as well as CIBERESP research- ers, groups from the CIBER de Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN) and Enfermedades Hepáticas y Diges- tivas (CIBEREHD) also take part in this.
INTERNATIONAL (EUROPEAN) PROJECTS
• Operational knowledge to improve HIV early diag- nosis and treatment among vulnerable groups in Europe.
• Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT) “Operational knowl- edge to improve HIV early diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable groups in Europe”.
Technology Transfer
One of the CIBER’s main aims is the transfer of re- search results into clinical practice, and one of the best tools existing for this purpose is technology transfer. The Unit managing this at the CIBER sets out to act as a bridge between our researchers and other agents in the Science and Technology System (companies, business associations, other research organisations, etc.) to make cooperation with these
bodies more effective. This means that research re- sults will be efficiently developed and can succeed in being applied. Work is done in several lines to this end:
• Training in innovation management and contin- uous contact with our researchers to monitor their results.
In this respect, last year the first general session of the CIBER in training on technology transfer and innovation was held, on 26th February 2015 and where national experts took part sharing their knowledge in matters such as industrial property, business creation or publication in open access, etc.
• Protection of their research results and man- agement of cooperation with other agents, as vouched for by applications for patents and signing licensing contracts, amongst other agreements.
Hence, over 23 new patent applications were made and seven licensing agreements were signed at the CIBER in 2015.
• The presentation of research results and tech- nological capacities of our groups.
Among many other measures and only as an ex- ample, in 2015, several projects were presented at the II Foro de Innovación en Diagnóstico in Vit- ro – FENIN in Barcelona (December 2015).
• Support for technology-based business crea- tion stemming from CIBER groups.
The CIBER has since 2014 taken part in Epidis- ease (http://www.epidisease.com/es/) which it continued to support in 2015.
• Other activities connected with innovation, pub- lic-private cooperation and industrial and intel- lectual property.
For example, the registration of the “community trademark” of the CIBER has been processed, or steps have been taken for registering intellectual property rights for audio-visual projects, amongst many others.
• In this period CIBERES applied for one priority patent.
Organization
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