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Presentation
The CIEN Foundation was established with the objective of supporting, promoting and coordinating research in all fields of basic, clinical and epidemiological neu- rology, with special emphasis on issues related to neurodegenerative diseases.
Throughout its course, the Foundation has carried out various tasks, standing out for its unifying and coordinating role of prominent Spanish research groups in this field, thus being entrusted with the management of the Network Center for Bio- medical Research for Neurodegenerative Diseases.
At the same time, it was assigned the management of the Alzheimer Project Re- search Unit once the Queen Sofia Foundation assigned use of the building to the CIEN Foundation.
On January 18, 2006, H.M. The Queen Sofia of Spain, President of the Queen Sofia Foundation and Ms. Elena Salgado Méndez, Minister of Health and Consummer Af- fairs and President of the CIEN Foundation Board of Trustees signed an agreement whereby the former ceded the premises and equipment devoted to the Research of the Alzheimer Project Complex to the latter, the CIEN Foundation committing itself to the management of the Research Unit, strictly adhering to the mission of said Unit and establishing the appropriate objectives, actions and actions based on it.
The Research Unit of the Alzheimer Project allows priority research on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias with studies such as the “Vallecas Project” or the “Research Program of the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center”, and in a complementary way, research on other neurodegenerative diseases.
The Unit currently consists of five areas: a Neuroimaging area with a 3T Magnet- ic Resonance; a Neuropathology area whose nuclear activity corresponds to the CIEN Tissue Bank (BT-CIEN), for the extraction, processing, classification and distri- bution of tissue; an area of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, for the process- ing and analysis of biological samples; a Neurology area and a Neuropsychology area, which carry out the assessment and clinical follow-up of both the patients treated at the Complex, as well as those volunteers from research projects that attend to the Center.
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