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Organization
Significant activities
Projects
The following projects were active in 2015:
NATIONAL PROJECTS
Financing agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• Neurotoxicity of depressive illness. Longitudinal study of neuroimaging, neurocognition and bio- logical markers.
Aware Applications - a Software Engineering Approach (REPHRASE).
OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
• Efficacy of an Innovative E-neurocognitive Mod- ule as an Adjunct to Functional Remediation for Bipolar Disorder.
• Genomic risk and resilience in 22Q11 deletion syndrome: a window into the genetic architecture
• Comparative study of the evolution of cognitive performance in relation with nicotine in patients with schizophrenia.
• Effects of functional rehabilitation on the neuro- plasticity of bipolar patients.
• 10PAFIP neuroimaging: Long-term (10-year) lon- gitudinal study of cerebral structural changes in patients with psychosis in the schizophrenia spectrum.
• Monitoring symptoms and signs in patients with first psychotic or emotional episodes by means of a mobile telephone application.
• Neuropsychological functioning and inflammato- ry profile in suicidal behaviour.
• Implication of variants of the DDR1 gene in the integrity of myelin and the cognitive processing speed in patients with euthymic phase bipolar disorder.
Financing Agency: Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness:
• A route map for research into mental health and well-being in Europe: ROAMER.
We should stress CIBERSAM’s participation in one of the CIBER interdisciplinary excellence projects financed by the AES, intended for studying the metabolic syndrome along with obesity and led by CIBEREHD.
INTERNATIONAL EU PROJECTS
• Suicidality: Treatment Occurring in Paediatrics (STOP).
• A Roadmap for Mental Health Research in Eu- rope (ROAMER).
• Mental Health Training through Research Net- work in Europe (MARATONE).
• Translating neuroimaging findings from research into clinical practice (PSYCAN).
• Refactoring Parallel Heterogeneous Resource-
of mental disorders.
• Trehalose as add-on therapy in bipolar depres- sion.
Transfer
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 re- sults will be efficiently developed and can succeed in being applied. Work is done in several lines to this end:
• Training in innovation management and contin- uous 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 proper- ty, business creation or publication in open ac- cess, etc.
• Protection of their research and management of cooperation with other agents, as vouched 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.
Amongst many other measures and merely as an example, in 2015 several projects were presented at the 2nd Forum for Innovation in In Vitro Diagno- sis – FENIN in Barcelona (December 2015).
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