Page 11 - Annual Report 2018

1. PROFILE AND PRESENTATION
recruited for stays at our Center and at the
University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio.
• Throughout 2018, the CIEN Foundation
maintained its commitment to the Youth
Employment Operational Program of the
Council of Education, Youth and Sports of the
Region of Madrid, by formalizing a new contract
for the promotion of young employment and
implementation of the Youth Guarantee in
R+D+I.
• During 2018, three new collaboration
agreements were signed between the CIEN
Foundation and the Queen Sofia Foundation,
among which we highlight the
“Neurodegenerative Diseases 2020.
International Year of Research and Innovation”,
which regulates the relationship between the
parties to its implementation, with the
objective of obtaining financial
resources for the purposes of both
foundations and that of
“Vallecas 2, early detection of
Alzheimer's Disease. Risk and • The CIEN Foundation Tissue Bank organized,
protection factors”,
intended to establish the
collaboration framework
to carry out research
aimed at the
identification of
individuals at greater
risk of developing
Alzheimer's type
dementia (AD),
based on the
conjunction of
sociodemographic,
clinical,
neurological,
neuropsychological
data , genetic,
biochemical and
neuroimaging
biomarkers.
• In 2018, a total of 559 visits were carried out in
Magnetic Resonance and a total of 3,227
studies were conducted to these subjects.
• Validation of our predictive algorithm of mild
cognitive impairment with a new group of
individuals from the Vallecas Project. This work
has been carried out by Linda Zhang, recipient
of the MAPFRE-CIEN Foundation Grant.
• In 2018, the CIEN Tissue Bank reached
registration number 900.
• Work began on the National Biobank Network
Platform (2017 Call), which will be active
between 2018 and 2020, and in which the CIEN
Tissue Bank acts as Coordinator of the R&D
Program.
• The director of the CIEN Foundation Tissue Bank,
Alberto Rábano, received in 2018 the Alzheimer
Award (Scientific Section) from the Spanish
Society of Neurology.
together with the Tissue Bank from the Institute
of Neurosciences of Castilla y León, the First
Symposium of Neurological Tissue Banking in
Salamanca on September 27-28, 2018.
• Five members of the CIEN Foundation Tissue
Bank (oral communications, lectures, round
tables, etc.) participated during the IX National
Congress of Biobanks, Oviedo, 7-9 November
2018.
• The CIEN Foundation 2018 Seminar Series
included 21 sessions of scientific seminars with
the participation of speakers, both from the
CIEN Foundation, as well as related, national
and international institutions.
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