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Donations of brain tissue have been integration of the Alzheimer's Project
suspended since March 2020 for bio- data in international online platforms
safety reasons. During the year 2021, where the data from cohort studies,
tissue extractions will be carried out in such as the European Medical Informa-
the hospital environment, while a re- tion Framework (EMIF) or the Global
form of the CIEN Foundation autopsy Alzheimer's Association Interactive
facilities is designed, planned and Network (GAAIN).
executed to adapt them to the new
biosafety requirements applicable to Regarding the collaboration with the
the pandemic and post-COVID period. industry, the CIEN Foundation and
In this new context, which includes Biocross SL collaborate in the deve-
strict inclusion criteria for carrying out
extractions (guarantee that donors are
not infectious for COVID-19), it is expec-
ted that around 50 extractions will be
carried out during the year 2021. Con-
sequently, one of the activities planned
for 2021 will be the planning and exe-
cution of the necessary reforms in the
BT-CIEN autopsy facilities, depending
on the availability of financing for this.

In 2021 it is also intended to complete
the redesign of the residence's pa-
tient registry. Given the large amount
of data of various kinds that exists for
each patient, and due to the increasing
number of participants in this CAFRS
Research Project, the need to redesign
the current database to make it more
efficient and manageable has been
detected, and to facilitate the analysis
of these data using different software
such as MATLAB, R, or SPSS. Likewise,
this improvement in the structure of
the database will facilitate collabo-
ration in joint research projects with
other research centers at a national
and international level, as well as the