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Transversal Programmes
Training Programme
The CIBERER Training Programme carried out its main work in 2015 in three overall approaches:
• Courses: Organisation and calls for aid for grants for attendance.
• Mobility grants.
• Pre-doctoral grants 2014-15.
Course on functional assays in alternative models to the mouse in Biomedical Research, 28th to 30th October 2015, Hospital Ramón y Cajal-IRICYS, Madrid. This was the first edition of this course arranged by the CIBERER’s U728 unit, led by Doc- tors Moreno and Morín. The availability of a huge amount of genetic information contrasts with the difficulty of validating the clinical significance of
Courses: Organisation and calls for attendance grants
Course on Applied Medical Genetics and Genomics, 9th to 13th March 2015. EUROFORUM, San Loren- zo de El Escorial, Madrid. Coordinated by Doctors Lapunzina (U753) and Pérez-Jurado (U735). This international course, arranged by CIBERER, was a venue for experts in clinical genetics from sev- en Latin American countries to meet, including teachers and students, and for discussion as to how to apply new diagnostic methodologies to clinical genetics.
MDA course on Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis, 28th to 30th September 2015, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia. This was a CIBERER course arranged by the BER platform (U715). It provided training for 20 researchers in methods for filtration of genetic variants and in- terpretation of their meaning as regards potential causes of pathology.
CIBERER Training Course on Phenotyping of Ani- mal Models, 16-20th November 2015, Facultad de Veterinaria UCM-Hospital Clínico Veterinario UCM, Madrid. Arranged by CIBERER’s SEFALER platform and coordinated by Doctors Varela and Murillo (U761). It provided practical training with diverse models, mainly murine, basic knowledge for characterising physiopathology of RD and ap- praisal of therapies in models of disease.
new variants, which is why it is increasingly nec- essary to find out how to handle alternative mod- els for this process.
Mobility grants
In 2015 CIBERER went on with its mobility pro- gramme to foster the training of researchers and cooperation between groups in the network. More specifically, 14 applications for mobility grants were able to be catered for in 2015, 11 of these intramural, one for a Linked Clinical Group and 2 international grants.
Pre-doctoral grants 2014-15
CIBERER pre-doctoral grants are a specific tool for attracting recent graduates to CIBERER groups. In 2015 it was not possible to issue any call. The 2014 call was completed, with its 13 beneficiar- ies, 9 of whom remained in research groups after this financing had ended.
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