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Institute of Health, Antonio Andreu; the Scientific Director of CIEN Foundation and Network Center for Bio-
medical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), Jesus Avila; and the Manager of CIEN Foun-
dation and CIBERNED, Maria Angeles Perez.

Therafter, the Queen held a briefing with members of the CIEN Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee,
including Miguel Medina Padilla, Deputy Scientific Director of CIBERNED; Jose Ramon Naranjo, a resear-
cher at the National Center for Biotechnology of the CSIC (CNB) and CIBERNED; Javier de Felipe, CIBERNED
principal investigator and Professor at the Higher Centre for Scientific Research (CSIC); and Fernando Ro-
driguez Artalejo, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Autonomous University of Ma-
drid.

1.6. Vision                                             the half-way point of this 5-year longitudinal study
                                                        has been surpassed, as shown in the following figure.
The Vallecas Project is the main research project
being conducted at the CIEN Foundation, both in         During this year validation of historical data collec-
terms of resources employed as well as in terms of its  ted to date by the different areas has been com-
social impact. Once the recruitment of volunteers       pleted and a single integrated and anonymized,
and the constitution of the cohort study of Vallecas    newly created database has been established. This
project was completed in late 2013, second, third,      database is intended to ensure the reliability and se-
fourth, and fifth visits from volunteers have been oc-  curity of data while in turn allowing a more effective
curring simultaneously during the year 2015, so that    analysis. The first evaluation of data from the first two

2011  2012                               2013  2014     2015  2016               2017  2018

      First visit
                      Second visit
                                      Third visit
                                                     Fourth visit
                                                                    Fifth visit

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