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     Presentation by the CIBER’S Managing Director
Manuel Sánchez Delgado
2018 was the year in which the consolidation of
the three new CIBER areas which joined in the previous period was materialised. After having worked in the consortium for over two years, the over 100 groups in the CIBERCV, CIBERONC and CIBERFES have now adapted their processes and shored up their different research programmes. They have also furthered cooperation work in their own area and with the other thematic areas.
The task now facing the CIBER is to tackle the challenge of breaking through the limits of its thematic areas and encouraging its groups to work transversally,not only in their own areas but with groups from the whole consortium.
During the 2018 period the intention to
encourage this type of cooperation work could
be appreciated, for example in the directors’ participation in several scientific events of other CIBER areas (CIBER-BBN Annual Conference and CIBERESP Symposia, to mention just a couple of these); or the Training Sessions of the CIBERES and the CIBERSAM Ideas Laboratory,events which yet another year stimulated dialogue and relations between the young researchers from the different areas of the CIBER.
We should also stress the cooperation of the ESP, OBN, CV and ONC areas in the Encuentro para la Excelencia de la Investigación en Salud Pública; or the cooperation in the organisation of the 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI). The CIBEROBN
and CIBERCV took part in the organisation of this highly prestigious international event, in which CIBERFES and CIBEREHD were also involved. Several calls for projects promoting cooperation between different areas were also launched; as well as the already consolidated cooperation between the CIBER-BBN and the CIBERES, there was a call between groups in the CIBERONC and CIBER-BBN in 2018.
The Network Centre model fostered by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, now consolidated and with a record of over 10 years’ biomedical research, has around 7000 researchers (contracted and attached) in over 400 research groups of different kinds. The CIBER’s budget for 2018 was over 45 million euros, as income from the transfer from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, grants for projects, services provided and other funds.
The CIBER is today a strategic ally for applying for investigation projects, and a highly important partner in international calls requiring the cooperation of different groups. In 2018,the CIBER obtained funding of around 4 million € in competitive calls. 97 of the 129 projects under way during this period were national, 26 European and 6 from the U.S.A.
The scientific results obtained in this period continue along the lines of previous years. In 2018 over 6,700 publications came out, around 4000 of which were in the first quartile and more than 1700 in the first decile.
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