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sent a degree of maturity that allows them to raise new challenges throughout their professional career, was held .
Finally, 2 plenary presentations on 2 very well-known subjects posing challenges which will be very inter- esting to solve in upcoming years were held in the conferences:
“Nanoparticulate biomaterials for gene and drug delivery”, by Matthias Epple (Centre for Medical Bio- technology, Universität Duisburg-Essen) and “Overview of the development of nanomedicine in Europe and the next trends”, by Patrick Boisseau (European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine) .
Certificates of recognition were also given to researchers who obtained launching grants, co-sponsored by Caja de Ingenieros, during the year . This modest “initiation” grants allows us to be a bit more gene- rous money wise with our programme to attract younger and more brilliant minds into research, giving them coverage in the final months of bachelor or masters studies in order to access other grants in regu- lar competitive calls for proposal .
In summary, the year 2014 was a new year in which the results of the continued effort made by the centre since it was created started to become measurable realities and in which the reflections included in the strategic plan prepared in the previous year have been initiated simultaneously . 2014 also marked the first year with the integrated management office along with other 7 CIBERs . In my opinion, this is a great structuring effort that deserves acknowledgement . It must also be added that this experience must be used, advancing it in the years to come, without the initial haste, towards becoming the backbone for research in CIBER, which is the ultimate goal of CIBER-BBN .
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