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Training Programme
Coordinator: Ángel Nadal Navajas
As the main innovation in the Training Programme for 2017, CIBERDEM has included the call for grants for international mobility, ve of these having been awarded The national mobility programme has contin- ued with the call for intraCIBERDEM and interCIBER aid, with two applications granted Both programmes are to continue in 2018
Our VIII CIBERDEM Annual Meeting was held on 17-19 May, with the participation of roughly 150 CIBERDEM researchers, and the presentation of 86 communications, counting oral papers and posters Speakers from all the groups in the CIBERDEM and the two platforms took part in this The meeting was also attended by the scienti c directors of the CIBER-BBN and the CIBERSAM, who presented the organ- isation and lines of research in their areas, as well as the possibilities for cooperation and synergies be- tween the Groups from the di erent centres The NANBIOSIS (CIBER-BBN) platform was also presented
As part of the training activities with the other thematic areas of the CIBER, we held the rst joint CIBERDEM – CIBEROBN workshop on diabetes and obesity, with communications given by each CIBER thematic area and over 100 participants We also took part, along with CIBERESP and CIBEROBN, at the Encounter for Excellence in Public Health Research held in September in Menorca
In the setting of the training activities that CIBERDEM organises in cooperation with MSD, this year the Annual Symposium entitled “La Diabetes a Debate 2017: Diabetes in the Knowledge Frontier” was on the main theme of ageing and diabetes, focussing on the dual areas of basic research and its clinical applica- bility The videoconferences were a great success, with a large number of viewings
A postgraduate course for experts in chronic complications of diabetes was arranged with the Universi- dad de Barcelona
CIBERDEM Groups have done a great deal of work arranging congresses, courses, symposia, seminars and scienti c debates in Spain and abroad, contributing to the training of researchers CIBERDEM has taken part in the organisation of the 1st FEBS3+ Joint Meeting of the French-Portuguese-Spanish Bio- chemical and Molecular Biology Societies, held in Barcelona on 23-26 October, and has arranged the satel- lite symposium CIBERDEM-MSD on Future Therapies in Diabetes