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1. PROFILE AND PRESENTATION

Meanwhile, the CIEN Foundation Tissue Bank (BT-            ment and retention of talent are crucial factors for
CIEN, for its acronym in Spanish) has reached a re-        the future development of the CIEN Foundation. In
cord high in the number of yearly donations (76) and       this regard, in 2015 we have adhered to the program
at year-end has registered 600 brain donations since       of "Grants to promote young employment and im-
its inception in 2010. In addition, an area of sample      plementation of the Youth Guarantee in R+D+i" wi-
management has been set up to manage, process              thin the framewok of the State Plan for Scientific and
and track tissue samples requested by the different        Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016 ,
research groups, both nationally and internationally.      which has resulted in the execution of four contracts.
                                                           We have also renewed the agreement with the Ma-
At the institutional level, this has also been a fruitful  drid M + VISION project, with the collaboration of the
year. In September, the third edition of the Interna-      Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) .The goal
tional Conference on Research and Innovation in            is to attract international renowned researchers wi-
Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIIIEN), a scientific          thin the COFUND program from the EU Seventh Fra-
meeting that brings together the efforts of the            mework Programme.
Queen Sofia Foundation, CIEN Foundation and CI-
BERNED, was held and it has established itself as an       The invaluable collaboration of our trustees and be-
international scientific congress of reference in this     nefactors and the work of our professionals are two
field.                                                     solid pillars that support the future of CIEN Founda-
                                                           tion. Our ultimate goal, to keep fighting what many
The work developed at CIEN Foundation has once             people describe as the new epidemic of the XXI
again been recognized by different institutions out-       century: Alzheimer's disease.
side the research field. More specifically, INESE has
granted the Vallecas project one of its Insurance So-
lidarity Awards and the Fuerteventura Association of
Hotel and Tourism choose CIEN Foundation as the
beneficiary of the Fuerteventura Grant. In particular,
it allocated 24,000 euros to fund research in Alzhei-
mer's disease.

From a social perspective, activity has also been in-
tense. In February we celebrate the third edition of
'Vallecas Projec Volunteer’s Day' and coinciding
with the Christmas holiday season, we set up for the
fifth consecutive year the 'Tree of Memories' in the
Municipal Market of Villa de Vallecas, with the sup-
port of the Villa de Vallecas District Board, the Di-
rectorate General of the Elderly of the Madrid
Region, and traders from the market itself.

I cannot conclude without making special mention
of the actions in the area of Human Resources. The
ongoing training of our professionals and the recruit-

                                                           1 Zea-Sevilla et al. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Nov;11(11):1358-66

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