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Programmes
Bioengineering
and Medical Imaging
Coordinator: Jordi Aguiló Llobet
The Bioengineering Programme was very active in 2019, with the presentation of 8 intramural cooperation proposals with a 3-year horizon (2018-2021) to be added to the 28 that were presented in 2018 and which have been developed in the course of the year. Of these proposals, five were presented with groups of CIBERNED and other thematic areas of CIBER: CIBERER (1), CIBERSAM (1), CIBERFES (1) and CIBERNED (2). The proposals and their coordinators have been the following:
• Artificial BioPancreas: Novel macro and micro encapsulation of pancreatic b-cells for diabetes type 1 therapy, coordinated by Rosa Villa.
• MR-based in vivo Biomarkers of immune system activity against Glioblastoma, coordinated by Carles Arús.
• New technologies at the service of prevention, assessment and early detection of cognitive impairment, coordinated by Fernando Maestú.
• Hyperspectral and OCT imaging of muscle for assessing muscle degeneration and dystrophia in Duchenne disease, coordinated by Olga Conde.
• Interactive platform for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases, coordinated by José M. López Hi- guera.
• Interactive tool for early detection of emotional impairments, coordinated by José M. López Higuera.
• Non-invasive sleep tracker using two complementary vibration technologies, coordinated by José M. López Higuera.
• Neurological mechanisms of resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease, coordinated by Juan Domingo Gispert.
The most frequently addressed pathologies have been neurological diseases with three proposals. The remaining proposals focus on chronic, rare, neuromuscular, mental, sleep-related and cancer diseases.
As for active projects with other thematic areas, these have been the following:
• ANS-RESP-WEANING: Autonomic nervous system surrogates, cardiopulmonary coupling and respiratory parameters as predictors of successful weaning in mechanically ventilated patients, with the participation of the group led by Pablo Laguna and collaboration with CIBERES.