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The presentation of the annual report is a good occasion to highlight everything that has been achieved during the year in the di erent elds of action of the CIBERDEM and also to re ect on the future On the organisational level, CIBERDEM has set up a Strategic Plan this year for the 2017- 20 period based on three major lines of action: consolidation and scienti c leadership; obtaining resources and sustainability One signi cant part of implementing the Strategic Plan this year has been the renovation of the External Scienti c Ad- visory Committee, which will have a major role in the development of CIBERDEM actions One initi- ative that we hope will be particularly fruitful is the institutional contact that the CIBERDEM has established with the German Center for Diabetes Research, which will be reinforced over 2018 We have also made an e ort to foster relations with other thematic CIBER areas with the partic- ipation at our Annual Meeting of CIBERSAM and CIBER-BBN and holding a joint scienti c session with CIBEROBN
In the eld of research work CIBERDEM has gone on raising its amount of scienti c production, already having attained 300 publications a year, with an excellent quality level (average impact factor 5 7) The CIBERDEM Groups have kept up prominent cooperation work on the national and international scales, with 82% and 42% collab- orative publications respectively Our web page shows details of the most relevant publications of each group Some of the speci c achievements in 2017 that I would like to stress are the com- pletion of the eld work in the Di@bet es study, which will enable
establishing the incidence of diabetes in Spain and the associated risk factors, a vital aspect for establishing diabetes prevention policies, and to be able to evaluate their results later In the eld of knowledge transfer, CIBERDEM has taken part in the preparation of 7 guides and consen- sus documents, one of these international, and patentability studies have been carried out, with the presentation of an European Patent
In the balance for 2017, we should also point out the initiatives in the Training Programme, in particular the CIBER and international programmes for mobility grants In the eld of Communication and Dissemination to Society, CIBERDEM has been admitted as a member of the Alliance for European Diabetes Research (EURADIA), from which CIBERDEM will help to de ne the future guidelines for research into diabetes in Europe CIBERDEM has been present on an institutional level at the Congress of the Sociedad Española de Diabetes and that of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, a presence which is going to be maintained in the future CIBERDEM has shored up the commitment to make its research known to society by taking part in di erent measures such as the participation of CIBERDEM Groups in the DiabetesFEDE journal at the DiabetesCero congress and the Diabetes Experience Day
Please consult the Report to nd out details of the work done and achievements of the CIBERDEM in 2017
With kind regards,
Scienti c Director’s Presentation
Eduard Montanya Mias
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