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▄▀ 1.1. Who we are

A FOUNDATION FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR
The CIEN Foundation was established on December 27, 2002 by virtue of
a resolution of the Council of Ministers. It is defined as a non-profit public
sector Foundation, with State-wide scope and competence. Currently, it
depends on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through
the Carlos III Institute of Health.

Among its founding objectives are supporting, promoting and coordinating
research in neurological diseases, especially neurodegenerative disorders. It
also highlights its unifying and coordinating role of leading Spanish research
groups in this field.

The CIEN Foundation is based at the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center, whose construction was
called the Alzheimer Project. Once the Alzheimer Center was built, it was divided into a residence for
healthcare and follow-up of the patients and an Alzheimer Project Research Unit of the (UIPA, for its
acronym in Spanish), whose main project is the Vallecas Project.

COLLABORATION WITH THE QUEEN SOFIA FOUNDATION

Since its establishment, the CIEN Foundation manages and coordinates the
Alzheimer Project Research Unit (UIPA), created by the Queen Sofia
Foundation and located in the Alzheimer Center that bears her name.

As indicated, the headquarters of the CIEN Foundation are located in the
Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center, a pioneering center in Spain in
which to comprehensively address the consequences that Alzheimer's
disease causes both on patients and their family environment. Since its
opening in 2007, at the neighborhood of Vallecas, Madrid, seeks to respond
to the social health project proposed by the Alzheimer Project of the Queen
Sofia Foundation.

A REFERENCE CENTER IN EUROPE ON ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RESEARCH

Only two institutions in Spain participate in the Èuropean Union Joint Programming for
Disease Neudegenerative Diseases (JPND): CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED.

Its excellent infrastructures, modern methodologies and cutting edge
technologies at their disposal as well as the available critical mass of
researchers were the criteria most valued by representatives of this
organization after being proposed by the Carlos III Institute of Health.

In addition, both CIEN Foundation as CIBERNED are integrated into the
international Network of Centers of Excellence in Research on
Neurodegeneration (COEN), mostly composed by European research
centers.