Presentation by the IIS Aragón on social innovation in health at the Entrepreneurship Week of the Universidad del Pacífico of Colombia
November 21, 2023
Laura Usón, researcher at IIS Aragón, receives an Aragón Investiga Ramón y Cajal award
November 23, 2023
The IIS Aragón has delivered its annual research grants whose main objective is to promote research at all levels, both for people who are starting out in research and for emerging and consolidated groups.
The CIBA assembly hall hosted this Tuesday, November 21, 2023, the Research and Innovation Conference of the Aragon Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), one of the most important annual events for the Institute.
On the occasion of the publication of the “Intramural Call for the Promotion of Research of the IIS Aragón 2023”, an initiative aimed at supporting researchers and research groups of the IIS Aragón, they have been presented in this important act of the aid to the most prominent consolidated, emerging and associated groups, as well as aid from mobility for resident researchers and predoctoral researchers, aid for hiring of faculty to train in research, you help research communication actions and help healthcare innovation actions.
The event was attended by José Luis Bancalero Flores, Minister of Health of the Government of Aragon; Rosa Bolea Bailó, vice-rector for Scientific Policy of the University of Zaragoza and Ángel Lanas, scientific director of the Aragón Health Research Institute; responsible for inaugurating this day.
“Almost €500.000 have been distributed today to 21 researchers from the house, thus enhancing the research capacity of the groups. As every year, our main objective with these grants is to promote research at all levels, both for people who are starting out in research, as well as for emerging and consolidated groups,” highlighted Ángel Lanas. Furthermore, he wanted to note that “this day marks the return of researchers from the overheads that we obtain from the projects, investing a large part of this income in the research of the most active groups.”
After the inauguration of these days, two presentations were given with some luxury guests: Pedro Baptista, ARAID researcher at the IIS Aragón, to talk about 'Organ Bioengineering. The Future of Transplant Medicine', and Valentín Ortín-Maldonado, from Hematology and Hemotherapy at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona with an interesting intervention on the 'Academic development and hospital manufacturing of CAR-T therapies: the new reality in patient treatment'.
Next, the IIS Aragón 2023 aid.
ACTION SUPPORT FIGURE RESIDENT RESEARCHER
| Begoña del Pilar González Pérez | GIIS081. Sector III Care Research Group Zaragoza |
| Pablo Manuel Fernández Corredor | GIIS007. Primary Dyslipidemia Group |
| Antonio Aguilar Muñiz | GIIS027. Translational Research Group in Digestive Pathology. |
PREDOCTORAL RESEARCH SUPPORT ACTION
| Monica Paesa Morales | GIIS102. Advanced Materials in Biomedicine Group. |
| María Trinidad Peláez Martínez | GIIS082. Research Group on Personality, Emotion and Health (IPES) |
| Alejandro Santos Mejías | GIIS014. “EpiChron Research Group on Chronic Diseases. |
| Sandra Leon Herrera | GIIS011. Aragonese Research Group in Primary Care |
| Ana Redrado Osta | GIIS033. Cancer Gene and Cell Therapy Research Group. |
| Irene Castells Yus | GIIS 0AJ. Molecular Oncology Research Group |
| Ana Medel Martínez | GIIS106. Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group |
ACTION SUPPORT DIRECTOR MANUEL LÓPEZ TO ASSOCIATED GROUP PROMOTED TO EMERGING
| CATEGORY G. ASSOCIATE PROMOTED TO EMERGING Pablo Herrero Gallego | iHealthy Group |
ACTION TO SUPPORT DIRECTOR MANUEL LÓPEZ TO EMERGING GROUP
Two grants have been awarded to the two best groups. The second, endowed with €7.500, is for:
| EMERGING G. CATEGORY Cristina Paules Tejero | GIIS106. Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group | Research lines: Threat of premature birth. Gestational diabetes Fetal programming |
The first group, with an endowment of €15.000, is:
| EMERGING G. CATEGORY Grace Mendoza Canto | GIIS102. Advanced Materials in Biomedicine Group |
ACTION SUPPORTING DIRECTOR MANUEL LÓPEZ TO THE CONSOLIDATED GROUP
| CATEGORY G. CONSOLIDATED | GIIS065. ADIPOFAT Group: Biology of Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Complications of Obesity. |
ACTION SUPPORTING COMMUNICATION AND SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION ACTIONS
| CIPREM Project. Premature babies hand in hand with Science: a multidisciplinary approach to supporting families. | GIIS037. Early Childhood Nutrition Group and its Long-Term Impact. Gerardo Rodríguez Martínez |
| Researcher-Patient-Public Communication. A challenge to co-create a participatory research community | GIIS105 – iHealthy Group Sandra Calvo Carrión |
ACTION SUPPORTING INNOVATION ACTIONS IN CLINICAL AREAS
| Project: Analysis of the improvement in motor performance after visual treatment of people with campimetric defects due to acquired brain damage. | GIIS048. Retina Research Group. Carmen Lopez de la Fuente |
POST-FSE SUPPORT ACTION FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN ONCOPAEDIATRICS
| Ana Sangros Gimenez | GIIS055. Cell Death, Inflammation, Immunity and Cancer. Julián Pardo Jimeno |
POST-FSE SUPPORT ACTION: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT IN PNEUMOLOGY – HCU
| Marta Martin Lana | HCULB Clinical Research in Respiratory Pathologies. Laura Anoro |
POST-FSE IV SUPPORT ACTION: AID FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN ARRHYTHMIAS – HCU
| Jorge Melero Polo | GIIS020. Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation (BSICoS). Javier Ramos Maqueda |
ACTION SUPPORTING POSTFSE CONTRACTS: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AID IIS ARAGÓN
| Jorge Rodríguez Sanz | GIIS041. Precision Medicine in Respiratory Diseases Group. José María Marín Trigo |
All the photographs of the winners HERE.
