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Scienti c Programmes
Bioengineering and Medical Imaging
Coordinator: Jordi Aguiló Llobet
The 21 intramural projects in the programme went on in 2017
In the call for inter-CIBER projects between CIBER-BBN, CIBERER and CIBERES, approval was obtained for the Ans-resp-weaning project which is developed by the Groups of Pablo Laguna (CIBER-BBN) and Lluís Blanch (CIBERES) with the aim of studying cardio-physiological parameters as predictors of successful suspension of mechanical ventilation in patients in a critical state
As regards projects, the following ones were also continued, nanced by external funds:
• IMI2 RADAR-CNS: Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse – Central Nervous System coor- dinated by King´s College in London and Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, with the participation of Jordi Aguiló’s group at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona and Pablo Laguna’s group at the Universidad de Zaragoza, along with the group led by Josep María Haro (CIBERSAM)
• GRAPHENE- CORE1: a work package of the Graphene Flagship devoted to Biomedical Tech- nologies coordinated by Prof Kostas Kostarelos, from the University of Manchester, with the participation of Rosa Villa from the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica
• Search for biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in the cohort of the Vallecas Pro- ject Javier Pavía and Francisco del Pozo’s Groups collaborate with Ramón Martinez Mañez’s Group in this project with a 3-year duration, coordinated by the Fundación CIEN
Apart from this, the Erasmus+ E-MEDIVIP project, an “e-learning platform in medical information technology to improve professional skills and practice in ITC” jointly led by Bilecik Seyh Edebali and Sakarya Universities from Turkey, in which researcher Margarita Juliá from Carles Arús’s group at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona takes part, ended in November
The Photonics Engineering Group of the Universidad de Cantabria led by José Miguel López Higuera has joined the Instituto de Investigación Marqués de Valdecilla (IDIVAL) as a consolidated group The same group has presented the feasibility of a highly innovative opto-electronic grid at the XIX Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Oncología Radioterápica (SEOR) held in Santander in June
In the month of October Barcelona Liver Bioservices (BLB) was set up, as a spin-o of the IDIBAPS for development of preclinical studies in the eld of liver diseases and hepatotoxicity BLB, which was set up partly thanks to the CaixaImpulse programme, uses a liver on a chip system which imitates the microenvironment of the liver in a cell co-culture chamber with micro uidics and with researcher Rosa Villa from the CNM-CSIC participating in its design
One of the principal researchers from the Bioengineering programme, Pablo Laguna, head of the CIBER- BBN group at the Universidad de Zaragoza (BSICoS), was appointed IEEE fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society -IEEE-EMBS-
A work coordinated by Guadalupe Soria and with Raúl Tudela as rst signatory, both of these researchers in Javier Pavía’s Group at the Hospital Clínico in Barcelona, has won the Magna cum Laude award for the best paper granted by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology at its annual Congress These researchers have shown that there are di erences in the functional networks of the brain between healthy rats and a speci c rat model for Alzheimer’s disease