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Significant activities
Projects
NATIONAL
Financing agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Differential effect of the socio-economic position and geographical area on the impact of road safety policies in mortality through traffic accidents in Spain (PI14/00050).
Evaluation of preventive and therapeutic interventions against infection by hepatitis C virus (EIPT-VHC).
Early metabolic factors and cardiovascular disease in the absence of classic risk factors in national and international studies (PI14/00009).
Integration of climatic information for improvement of surveillance of communicable diseases (PI15/01398).
Energy poverty and health from multiple perspectives: individual, geographical and temporal analysis (PI15/02006).
The syndrome of fragility and psychosocial factors in healthy ageing processes: a community cohort of elderly adults in Spain.
INTERNATIONAL UE
Operational knowledge to improve HIV early diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable groups in Europe.
Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT) “Operational knowledge to improve HIV early diagnosis and treatment among vulnerable groups in Europe”.
The JPI HDHL DEDIPAC Knowledge Hub on Determinants of Diet and Physical Activity” (DEDIPAC KH). Improvement of HIV and co-infection prevention and treatment in priority regions and priority groups in the European Union.
Transfer
One of the CIBER’s main aims is the transfer of the knowledge generated by its researchers, so that its research results can be developed in protocols, services and products for improving clinical practice and people’s quality of life. To this end the CIBER Technology Transfer department acts as a liaison between our researchers and companies, private institutions, public research centres and other innovation agents to make cooperation with them more effective and ensure that the results of research are actually applied. Work is done in several lines in order to achieve this aim:
• Ongoing contact with our researchers to monitor their results and train them in innovation management.
In this respect, on 29 and 30 November 2016 a Technology Transfer Session was organised as part of the 30th anniversary of ISCIII. At this event experts in different areas shared their knowledge on industrial property, company creation, licencing processes, venture capital, grants for internationalisation, etc.
• Protection of the results of research and management of cooperation with other agents, as displayed by the application for patents and signing licence contracts, amongst other agreements.
In 2016 eleven new patent applications and a registration of software were thus submitted at the CIBER. Seven inventions are also in the patentability study and one in the drafting stage, and these are expected to be submitted in early 2017.
• Apart from this, eight licence contracts have been signed. In 2016 different negotiations expected to end successfully in the first quarter of 2017 were also got under way.
• The presentation of the results of research and technological capacities of our groups in technology transfer sessions. Among many other measures, and just as an example of this, CIBER had a stand and institutional presence at BIOSPAIN 2016 (28-30 September, Bilbao).
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