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Jordi Bruix, Scientific Director
Scientific Director’s Presentation
In 2016 a high level of scientific activity was maintained with a large number of publications in journals with great impact. This vouches for the consolidation of CIBEREHD as a powerful research structure which has been capable of overcoming budget difficulties and limitations for taking on new staff.
The annual report sets forth the most relevant results of the different programmes on which the CIBEREHD is structured and speaks for the gradual increase in cooperative studies with international impact. This feature can be seen in all the programmes in which both nationwide network research and successful internationalisation can be found in many projects. International cooperation is often led by CIBEREHD researchers, which speaks for the recognition attained.
Research has been relevant in basic aspects, but particularly in translation to patients affected by hepatic and digestive diseases. In this respect, it should be pointed out that in several fields clinical practice guides have been generated based on scientific evidence and on consensus documents in which the criteria and method that have to be implemented in both basic and clinical research are defined.
The CIBEREHD is supported by shared platforms of services that have played a relevant role in different research projects at the same time as providing teaching activities in order for trainee researchers to gain the knowledge required for their work.
The renovation of the Scientific Management as well as of the Management Committee has led to designing an action plan for the next 4 years and at the same time to analysing the vital need to come
to terms with a generation renovation. It has been decided to incorporate new research groups in complementary aspects and during 2017 the evaluation of the possible candidates must be carried out. One relevant aspect that has been displayed is the need to move towards a gender balance on all levels and to identify young researchers with ambitions leaning towards scientific careers in order to ensure that the research culture in Biomedicine is maintained.
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