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This area promotes different projects related to oncological, digestive, hematological or mental health diseases, among others.
The Minister of Health, Sira Repollés, today inaugurated the Translational Research Unit of the Lozano Blesa University Clinical Hospital in Zaragoza. These new facilities, located on the third floor of the hospital and whose surface area amounts to almost 500 square meters, are intended to house research groups from the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), which will result in more than fifty scientists and professionals in basic, applied, clinical and healthcare research, working on the development of health research and innovation projects.
Repollés has expressed his satisfaction with the launch of these spaces that demonstrate the firm commitment to promoting the development of research within hospitals as an instrument to continue developing and improving the health system. Along with the counselor, Luis Pablo, scientific deputy director of the IIS Aragón, José Antonio Mayoral, rector of the University of Zaragoza, and José Ignacio Barrasa, Manager of the Clinical Hospital, participated in the event.
Currently, there are already 10 research groups that occupy these spaces, developing projects in the field of oncology, hematology, pediatric obesity, preeclampsia, dementia and depression, children's road safety or digestive diseases, among others. The new spaces have been defined as a meeting and collaboration area between researchers with a clinical profile of different pathologies with engineers and researchers with a technological profile, promoting and facilitating the development of research and innovation projects in health, with a high technological component. In this sense, the spaces house an Artificial Intelligence unit and another Bioinformatics unit that offer transversal support to the development of different projects.

The spaces also include a new Clinical Research Unit for the Hospital, conceived as a centralized structure to provide management support to all the hospital's clinical research groups, facilitating research doctors' dedication to research and the development of clinical trials. . The new Unit offers patients participating in clinical studies high-quality and safe facilities, guaranteeing their well-being at all times.
In addition to innovation and clinical research laboratories, the new spaces have training and meeting rooms, consultations, waiting rooms, documentation archives, changing rooms, toilets and warehouses.
The new spaces will contribute to promoting research within the Hospital, promoting collaboration between researchers from different fields and facilitating the use and application of technology in the healthcare field, providing solutions to health problems and challenges through the development of innovative projects that, In addition, they result in a better experience for the patient and their environment.
In the coming months, the incorporation of new research groups to the spaces is planned.