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Scientific Director’s Presentation
Our scientific work kept a high profile in 2015, with a large number of publications in top-level journals. This vouches for the CIBEREHD’s consolidation as a powerful research structure which has been capable of overcoming budget hardships and limitations to taking on new staff.
The annual report sets forth the most relevant re- sults in the different programmes around which the CIBEREHD is structured and enables verifying the gradual increase in collaborative studies with inter- national impact. This trait can be seen in all the pro- grammes in which nationwide network research and successful internationalisation in multiple projects can be found. International cooperation is frequently led by CIBEREHD researchers, which is a result of the recognition that has been attained.
Research has been relevant in basic aspects but particularly in patients affected by hepatic and di- gestive diseases. It should be noted in this respect that clinical practice guides have been generated in different fields based on scientific evidence and on consensus documents in which the criteria and methods that should be applied in both basic and clinical research are defined.
The CIBEREHD is supported by shared platforms of services that have played a relevant role in differ- ent research work at the same time as carrying out teaching activity so that trainee researchers can ac- quire the knowledge needed for their work.
In 2015 the Scientific Management and Manage- ment Committee were renewed. This coincides with the completion of the present four-year action plan and requires redefining the objectives in the new pe- riod. CIBEREHD groups have been structured in four programmes which cover the need to adapt to new requirements and in 2016 the new Four-Year action plan will be drawn up. It should be emphasised that one of the challenges to be faced is generational re- newal and the critical analysis of the current teams. In some cases, continuity will not be feasible and they will have to be replaced by emerging groups which at present lie outside the CIBEREHD but which can provide complementary aspects required to maintain the CIBEREHD’s scientific excellence.
Jordi Bruix
Scientific Director of the CIBEREHD
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