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Ferran Barbé, Scientific Director
Scientific Director’s Presentation
Dear researchers,
We are now presenting our area’s results for 2016. Please allow me to stress the two aspects which I consider to have been of greatest importance in our work over these last twelve months.
On one hand, our scientific results are yet again excellent, thanks to you all. We are keeping up our level of production and quality in both publications and projects and we have also got some very good results as CIBERES in competitive calls. One good example of this could be the fact that in 2016 we were granted four of the nine applications for FIS projects presented by us, which represents double the results obtained in 2015, as well as a type I Miguel Servet contract, the only one granted to a CIBER area in this call.
I would secondly like to highlight the work that we have done in developing a Strategic Plan to steer our work until 2019. This Plan redefines both our mission and vision and our strategic objectives, which can now finally be expressed as follows:
CIBERES Mission: to join forces to tackle respiratory diseases, by fostering excellence research and innovation and its prompt and safe transfer to clinical practice, encouraging training and compiling knowledge and research talent state-wide, as a driving-force research centre and benchmark in the field of respiratory diseases.
CIBERES Vision: CIBERES vision is to be an excellence network research centre on the international level, competitive, sustainable and a reference in the work done for prevention in the field of respiratory diseases.
Strategic objectives:
• Excellence research in respiratory diseases: encouraging excellence research in respiratory diseases combining talent and the best human resources available state-wide.
• Translational calling: contributing to solving problems in everyday clinical practice in the field of respiratory diseases.
• International presence: encouraging participation and leadership of CIBERES research groups in international-scale research work.
• Transfer of results in innovation: promoting the transfer of research results to society in general and to the production sector in particular.
• Training: reinforcing the skills and competence of researchers in respiratory medicine: helping to increase their capacities for research and innovation and their competitiveness in respiratory diseases.
• Dissemination and visibility: raising awareness about CIBERES, spreading news of its activities and main results of respiratory research to society.
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