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2.4.1 Research projects • The Vallecas project

The CIEN Foundation was created with • BT-CIEN Tissue Bank.
the aim of promoting the foundation • Alzheimer Program
of a network center that supports, • Other research projects
promotes, and coordinates research
activities. The objectives of the CIEN • Service provisions
Foundation are specified in six funda- • Training
mental activities:

Vallecas Project: Research aimed at identifying individuals with a higher risk of
developing Alzheimer's type dementia (AD), based on the combination of socio-
demographic, clinical, neurological, neuropsychological, genetic, biochemical and
neuroimaging data, within the framework of the project called “Vallecas-2, early
detection of Alzheimer's disease. Risk and protection factors”. The Queen Sofia
Foundation, signatory of the agreement dated on February 14, 2018, undertakes to
contribute during each of the 4 years of planned duration of the project, the suc-
cessive amounts that are agreed annually by its Board of Trustees, corresponding
to the first three years a total amount of € 300,000.00.

YEAR 2018 2019 2020
Queen Sofia Foundation Contribution 300.000,00 300.000,00 300.000,00

The Vallecas Project is one of the main Bank). Contributions to BT-CIEN come,
research projects carried out by the in addition to those obtained in the
CIEN Foundation, both in terms of CAFRS (Internal Donation Program),
resources used and its social impact. In from donors from the Community of
parallel, the CIEN Foundation is enga- Madrid and other Regions (External
ged in other research projects on neu- Donation Program). In turn, the BT-
rodegenerative diseases, among which CIEN, after processing, diagnosis and
the Alzheimer Center Project and the classification, maintains the biological
Biobank Platform stand out. material in long-term archive condi-
tions and distributes it to researchers
Tissue-Bank (BT-CIEN): Through the and institutions that require it for
Department of Neuropathology of the research projects, in accordance with
CIEN Foundation, a biobank of neuro- the application and transfer of biobank
logical tissue is managed (CIEN Tissue