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Significant Activities
Projects
The projects active in 2015 were as follows:
NATIONAL PROJECTS
Financing Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III:
• Study of the possible role of iron in the physiology of human adipose tissue in association with obe- sity and resistance to insulin.
• Rio Hortega Contract.
• Miguel Servet Contract.
• Cell membrane changes induced by dietary long- chain omega-3 fatty acids and their link to chro- nic disease development.
Other financing agencies:
• TV3 Fundació la Marató: Lipotoxicity, liver steato- sis and hepatocellular carcinoma: function of the armc10/armcx family of mitochondrial proteins.
• SEA/FEA: Effects of a walnut-enriched diet on cir- culating microRNAs related with the metabolism of cholesterol and lipoproteins
We should stress CIBEROBN’s participation in two of the three interdisciplinary CIBER excellence projects financed by the AES: one of these, led by CIBERDEM, has the aim of identifying the mechanisms of the inflammatory processes which are detected on one hand in obese or type 2 diabetic patients and on the other in patients with Crohn’s disease. Another of the projects in which CIBEROBN researchers are taking part is led by the CIBEREHD and seeks to find the common and differential molecular mechanisms of obesity, the metabolic syndrome, diabetes and fatty liver disease, identifying biomarkers for early diagno- sis and sets out to find new therapeutic approaches.
INTERNATIONAL (EUROPEAN) PROJECTS
• Long-term effects of an energy-restricted Medite- rranean diet on mortality and cardiovascular disea- se: the PREDIMED PLUS Study”.
• EhcoBUTLER.
Transferencia de tecnología
One of the CIBER’s main aims is the transfer of re- search results into clinical practice, and one of the best tools existing for this purpose is technology transfer.
The Unit managing this at the CIBER sets out to act as a bridge between our researchers and other agents in the Science and Technology System (companies, business associations, other research organisations, etc.) to make cooperation with these bodies more effective. This means that research results will be effi- ciently developed and can succeed in being applied. Work is done in several lines to this end:
• Training in innovation management and conti- nuous contact with our researchers to monitor their results.
In this respect, last year the first general event of the CIBER in training on technology transfer and innovation was held, on 26th February 2015 and where national experts took part sharing their knowledge in matters such as industrial property, business creation or publication in open access, etc.
• Protection of their research results and manage- ment of cooperation with other agents, as vou- ched for by applications for patents and signing licensing contracts, amongst other agreements.
Hence, over 20 new patent applications were made and seven licensing agreements were signed at the CIBER in 2015.
• The presentation of research results and techno- logical capacities of our groups.
Among many other measures and only as an example, in 2015, several projects were presented at the II Foro de Innovación en Diagnóstico in Vitro – FENIN in Barcelona (December 2015).
• Support for technology-based business creation stemming from CIBER groups.
The CIBER has since 2014 taken part in Epidisease (http://www.epidisease.com/es/) which it conti- nued to support in 2015.
• Other activities connected with innovation, pu- blic-private cooperation and industrial and inte- llectual property.
For example, the registration of the “community trademark” of the CIBER has been processed, or steps have been taken for registering intellectual property rights for audio-visual projects, amongst many others.
Organization
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