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Another one of the enormous values added to the Adipobiology Programme is its perfect integration and complementarity with the different existing platforms, and more specifically with the Fat-Bank Platform .
The greater interconnection of groups with one another and with other CIBERs must also be pointed out . It has resulted in the possibility of research in which specialization and high-performance equipment not available in other centres could be applied in the integrating collaborations which have synergistically resul- ted in innovative approaches and achievements far superior to those that could have been attained indivi- dually by each of the groups on their own . Likewise, it should be mentioned that this progression with the simultaneous collaboration of a number of groups, as well as with other international groups, is yielding high-impact tangible results in the specialization involving the participation of multiple groups (instead of a couple, which was the tendency when the CIBER began) .
In addition, prolific activity of the groups is good evidence of the close and fluid collaboration between the groups, which has furthermore culminated in the generation of new scientific approaches, research strate- gies and basic clinical expectations, as well as the application of the INTER-CIBER Inflames project, which has been granted . The Adipobiology Programme is fully in line with international trends, handling all the latest topics and CIBER groups deservedly standing out as international benchmark . Apart from the extraordinary training capability of each of the groups individually, it is necessary to point out the enormous advantage offered by short internships of young researchers in other CIBEROBN groups . This directly benefits resear- chers undergoing training, and it in turn allows establishing closer collaboration ties between groups and developing new technologies and scientific approaches .
REQUESTED AND/OR GRANTED RESEARCH PROJECTS TO BE FUNDED BY THE PROGRAMME OR FROM OTHER RESOURCES:
Besides the characteristic projects in national and industry-backed competitive calls for proposals of the different groups, in the granted European projects section it is necessary to highlight the Diéguez and Tena-Sempere groups, which participate in prestigious European consortiums with maximum funding in both KBBE and HEALTH, and special Programmes such as Marie Curie and Starting Grants to conduct research in the framework of adipobiology . Furthermore, the FP7 Cooperation Work Programme HEALTH (Frühbeck) participates in three projects (DORIAN, SPOTLIGHT and MoodFOOD), which are still being carried out . In addition, it should be pointed out that in this year call for proposals some groups have submitted applications in affiliation with CIBEROBN, but they have not been granted .
Given the eminently basic nature of the Adipobiology Programme, direct transfer of the research results to clinical practice is considerably more difficult than in other programmes . In fact, the arsenal of drugs for a disease that is as prevalent as obesity is extraordinarily limited . Nevertheless, it is to be expected that the consolidation of the programme over time along with the identification of possible therapeutic targets will enable this transfer to be much more obvious, as some groups have already demonstrated (Tinahones, Fernández-Real, Palou, Villarroya and Frühbeck, among others) by conferring translational value to their research work . It is also necessary to point out the value of being able to transfer and translate to clinical practice body composition studies which focus on determining body fat percentage, which have allowed establishing new diagnostic and evolutionary criteria with a broad clinical application, together with the development of clinical guidelines, directly benefiting patients and health systems .
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXTERNALISATION INITIATIVES:
In this sense, greater importance of CIBEROBN in general and of the Adipobiology Programme in particular has been seen with participation in national and international congresses, particularly in relation to the European Association for the Study of Obesity, SEEDO and SEEN . This has been particularly evident on an international level, where more CIBEROBN researchers have been invited as speakers, members of Scientific Committees, etc . Furthermore, Dr . Diéguez and Dr . López have coordinated, as guest editors, a special issue of the Mol Cell Endocrinol journal, with the participation of other Adipobiology Programme groups of CIBEROBN .
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