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The fundamental goal of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red-Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn)) is to find answers and solutions that allow controlling obesity and associated pathologies and improving people’s quality of life through the study of nutrition .
The Centre collaborates with basic and clinical research groups, and the challenge to its activity is to find the causes and mechanisms that condition the development of obesity and other eating behaviour disorders . The purpose is to detect and deal with the main therapeutic targets that allow controlling and containing diseases derived from being overweight, a condition that is considered today as the epidemic of the 21st century . Recent epidemiological data show 23% prevalence of obesity for Spain in adult individuals and 15-18% prevalence in children and adolescents .
Interaction with healthcare professionals, the food and pharmaceutical industry and patients is key in carrying out this clearly translational research for scientific progress to reach those that are affected as well as to gather their proposals and know their needs .
Therefore, CIBEROBN has conducted and conducts research (basic, clinical, epidemiological and health services research) and technological development activities, in relation to the following:
• Obesity, nutrition and physical activity • Genetics of obesity • Body weight homeostasis regulating factors • Intracellular signalling in tissues and organs • Mediterranean diet and prevention of metabolic disorders • Physiopathological factors in nutrition . Epidemiology of obesity • Childhood obesity and effect of gender on obesity • Complications (morbidity and mortality) associated with obesity
Mission and visión
CIBERobn’s mission is to promote the understanding of mechanisms contributing to the development of obesity in order to reduce its occurrence and prevalence as well as its complications, in addition to nutrition- related diseases .
Through leadership in translational biomedical research, CIBERobn integrates basic, clinical, epidemiological and public health research, provides medical care and promotes public awareness about obesity and nutrition, to become a reference research centre that has the competitive potential of being internationalised and to provide R&D&I consulting services to pharmaceutical companies, food companies and the nation’s health authorities .
Through its work in physiopathology of obesity and nutrition and related diseases, the consortium CIBERobn seeks to:
• Gain national and international recognition; • Organize a well-established network of research groups and associates for the purpose of
achieving maximum scientific benefit . • Increase scientific knowledge and be a useful tool for a health care transformation in our society .
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