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Significant activities
Projects
These were the projects active in 2015:
NATIONAL PROJECTS
Financing Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• Miguel Servet Contract - Characterization of the Lipin family in human adipocytes.
• Effects of fatty acids in the diet on the expression
INTERNATIONAL (EUROPEAN) PROJECTS
• DIAbetes Transnational Research Advancement for Investigators (DIATRAIN).
• Genetic and environmental factors of insulin re- sistance syndrome and its long-term complica-
tions in immigrant Mediterranean populations (MEDIGENE).
Organization
and epigenetic changes in the VEGF-b-mediated fatty acid transport system in rats.
• Río Hortega Contract.
• Identification of novel modulators of chronic in- flammation in prevalent diseases: unveiling diver- gent mechanisms of disease.
Financing Agency: Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness:
• The regulation of progenitor cells by the signals of insulin /IRS2: implications in metabolic diseases.
• Identification of metabolic routes in the neurode- generation of the retina induced by hyperglycae- mia and ischaemia through a metabolomics and proteomics approach.
• Grant from the Sub-programme for Training of Research Staff - Miriam Navarro.
• Ramón y Cajal Contract.
• Aid for pre-doctoral mobility for going on short stays at R +D centres.
• Signalling of insulin located in the liver
• Reformulating the metabolism by identifying new metabolites and biochemical reactions using a new metabolomics tool.
We should stress the CIBERDEM’s participation in the three CIBER interdisciplinary excellence projects financed by the AES. One of these three projects, co- ordinated by Antonio Zorzano, has the aim of iden- tifying the mechanisms of inflammatory processes detected on one hand in persons with obesity or type 2 diabetes, and on the other in patients with Crohn’s disease. Along with the CIBERDEM, groups from the CIBER of Obesity y Nutrition (CIBEROBN), of Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD) and Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) are tak- ing part in this.
Technology 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 property, business creation or publication in open access, etc.
• Protection of their research results and man- agement 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 tech- nological capacities of our groups.
Among many other measures and only as an ex- ample, in 2015, several projects were presented at the II Foro de Innovación en Diagnóstico in Vit- ro – FENIN in Barcelona (December 2015).
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