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Scientific director’s presentation
Eduard Montanya Mías
In 2018, CIBERDEM placed the priority on strategic actions based on consolidation and scientific leadership, with special concern for young people. One relevant aspect of the implementation of
the Strategic Plan were the calls for CIBERDEM Intramural Projects for young researchers, and of Grants for preparatory work meetings for projects. Another particularly fruitful initiative was the underpinning of institutional contact with the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD),which has enabled the presence of DZD at our Annual Meeting, the visit of CIBERDEM researchers to DZD and the attendance of young researchers at the DZD course entitled 6th Diabetes Research School (Berlin). The person-to-person meeting with the External Advisory Scientific Meeting allowed us
to analyse and make an in-depth review of the structure and operation of CIBERDEM.
In the framework of its research work, CIBERDEM has kept up the standard of its scientific production, with 294 annual publications of an excellent quality level (average impact factor
5.3). The CIBERDEM groups continue with their cooperative work on the national and international levels,with 75% and 40% collaborative publications respectively. Our web page shows details of each group’s most relevant publications. Some of
the specific achievements in 2018 that should be stressed are that CIBERDEM has established the incidence of diabetes in Spain, as being 11.58 cases per 1000 persons-year,which represents about 386,003 new cases a year. The results
were presented in Spain in the framework of the XXIX Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Diabetes. The analysis being made of the data generated by the di@betes study will enable determining the risk factors associated with the development of diabetes, as well as
the incidence of associated comorbidities, vital information for designing healthcare policies that are specifically aimed at preventing diabetes. In the scope of knowledge transfer,CIBERDEM has continued to take part in the preparation
of national and international guidelines and consensus documents, and has carried out several patentability studies, submitting two patent applications and one PCT.
Looking back at 2018, we should also stress the initiatives in the Training Programme as detailed in the Report. In the section on Communication and Dissemination to Society, CIBERDEM has kept up its commitment and participation as a member of EURADIA to define guidelines for research into diabetes in Europe. CIBERDEM was present at the Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Diabetes and that of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes,this involvement being institutionally consolidated with both scientific associations. CIBERDEM has taken part in activities for social dissemination such as the Science Week, Diabetes Experience Day and the World Diabetes Day, taking part in the Diabetes and Family event, in the Spanish Parliament’s Health Commission,and keeps its links with patients’ associations.
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