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The IIS Aragón has held its annual Research and Innovation Conference, one of the main gatherings of the Aragonese health science community
The grants awarded during the event strengthen training, international mobility, artificial intelligence applied to health, and the recruitment of research talent.
El Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón) has celebrated its Annual Research and Innovation Conference, one of the main meetings of the year for the Aragonese health science community, in which the Delivery of the IIS Aragón 2025 Grants, equipped with more than 212.000 euros, intended to promote the translational research, the innovation and talent acquisition in the healthcare field.
The event was opened by the Health Minister of the Government of Aragon, José Luis Bancalero, Together with the Rector of the University of Zaragoza, Rosa Bolea, as well as the Scientific Director of the IIS Aragon, Angel Lanas.
El health counselor has maintained that the research and innovation They boost the healthcare system and They improve the quality of care for citizens"You, the professionals, are the core of the healthcare system, and the Department of Health supports all initiatives that strengthen your training and expand your knowledge," he said.
He also commented that Aragon has an outstanding research system, including in the healthcare sector. "Proof of this are the more than 450 clinical trials which keeps the Aragon Health Research Institute active,” he pointed out. He told the recipients that the future of healthcare is built on knowledge, “and that future is already here, with you.”
For his part, Ángel Lanas pointed out that the objective of this aid is to promote research at all levels, from the early stages of a research career to support for emerging and established groups, “these recognitions constitute a fundamental tool to promote the continuity of research activity“This is one of the Institute’s commitments,” the scientific director of IIS Aragón emphasized.
During the day, the Professor Enrique Herrera ViedmaProfessor of Computer Science and Intelligence at the University of Granada, has given the presentation “AI applied to Health”, in which he has analyzed the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare, biomedical research and data analysis processes, as well as their ethical and organizational implications.
Delivery of the IIS Aragón 2025 Grants
Following the presentation of the results of the Intramural Call for Research Promotion 2024The delivery of the IIS Aragón 2025 aidaimed at promoting advanced training, the international mobility, the technological innovation, the scientific disclosure and recruitment of professionals to the field of translational research.
In the modality of Resident Researcher Figure have been granted eight grants of 3.000 euros, with a total endowment of 24.000 EurosThese grants are intended to facilitate training placements at leading national and international centers. The following individuals have been selected to receive funding in this category: Amelia Campos Sáenz de Santa María, Guillén Bernal Bandrés, Rocío Cecilia García Hidalgo, María Escuin Sanmartín, Ana Pueyo Bestué, Sergio García Mateo, María Martínez Iranzo and Cristian Andrés Giadach Vargas.
In the modality of Predoctoral researcher have been granted three grants of 3.000 euros, with a total endowment of 9.000 Euros, Lucía Abengochea Quílez, Carmen Rodrigo Carbó and Luis Pérez Espallargaswho will undertake training placements at universities and research centers in Germany, Denmark, and Belgium. Furthermore, the postdoctoral help, endowed with 6.000 Euros, has fallen on Sandra García Mateo, clinical researcher from the GIIS027 group, who will be undertaking a stay at the Department of Precision Medicine of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico of Milan.
In the field of communication and scientific disseminationThe call for proposals has granted aid of 3.000 Euros to the project CLARA, led by the Dr. Marta Baselga Lahoz, aimed at improving the communicative support for breast cancer patients throughout their entire clinical process. For its part, the line of Innovation and research in artificial intelligence applied to health, endowed with 20.000 Euros, has recognized two runner-up prizes of 5.000 euros to the projects led by Martín Laclaustra Gimeno y Elena Morte Romea, focused respectively on the evaluation of the reliability of the Generative AI in the synthesis of scientific evidence and in the Validation of a virtual assistant for targeted antimicrobial treatment. The first prize, endowed with 10.000 Euros, has been for the project led by María Carolina Corona Bellostas, which will develop a model based on Computer vision for monitoring esophageal stenosis in pediatric patients.
La Rector Manuel López helps the Emerging Group, endowed with 20.000 Euros, has fallen to the Advanced Cellular Immunotherapies Group, lead by Diego Sanchez Martinez, which focuses its activity on the development of innovative cell therapies such as CAR-T and CAR-NK, the study of the associated toxicity mechanisms to these treatments and the improvement of their antitumor efficacy.
The aid program is completed with the granting of two PostFSE contracts, endowed with 30.000 euros the first year and 35.000 euros the secondintended to reinforce the translational research at the Lozano Blesa University Clinical Hospital. Dr. Laura Pérez Abad will join Internal Medicine Service, developing her research work in the group of Clinical Autoimmunity, Whereas the Dr. Carlos Nagore González will join Pediatric Service, continuing his research activity in the group Early Nutrition and Growth Research.
With this call for proposals, the IIS Aragón consolidates its role as a key agent in health research in Aragon, reinforcing the training and development of research talent, development of innovative projects with clinical application and knowledge transfer to the healthcare system, with the aim of contributing to more effective, evidence-based care focused on improving the health of citizens.
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