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Letter from the Scientific Director
Dr. Ferrán Barbé . Scientific Director . CIBERES .
It is an honour for me to present for the first time the annual report of the activities of the Centre de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (Respiratory Diseases CIBER) .
In 2014, I received the responsibility of becoming the Scientific Director of the centre . I wanted to thanks and congratulate my predecessor first, Dr Alvar Agustí for his excellent work as Scientific Director . Under his command, CIBERES has strengthened as a nation and international centre of excellence in the research of respiratory diseases . The data presented in this report certifies the excellent trajectory followed, not only on an organisational level but also in regards to scientific results .
Secondly, I wanted to specifically thank all the team leaders and, in general, all the CIBEBRES researchers and personnel for the warm welcome they gave me . I am sure that under such a collaboration climate we will achieve new success . 2014 has involved the consolidation of our scientific organisation model . The Strategic Projects for the Corporate Research Programmes (CRPs) were evaluated externally and the good results of this evaluation endorse the work performed by our research programmes and group . Also, a new CRP proposal was externally evaluated last year . The excellence of said proposal allows us to announce that CIBERES now has a new CRP in Pulmonary Hypertension the strategic project of which will start up in 2016 .
The scientific output indicators as they will be presented below have followed an upward line in 2014 and put CIBERES in a good position in the scientific institution rankings .
We have some passionate months ahead of us that will allow us to reorganise our scientific structure, taking advantage of the driving force of all that we have achieved, for the purpose of making it more flexible and efficient . We will incorporate new research groups and will focus on evaluating our practice and on improving some aspects in which we have a certain margin, such as finding external funding or internationalising our activity .
I would like to encourage all CIBERES members to continue with their work and with their enthusiasm for getting the results of the upcoming years to be at least as good as those presented in this 2014 activity report .
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