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▄▀ 1.2. The CIEN Foundation in 2017
• During 2017, 31 original articles have been and thus identify early on the anomalies
published in specialized journals, 22 of which characteristic of the onset of Alzheimer's
have been in journals classified in the first and disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.
second quartiles, with an average impact
factor of 7.56, which represents an increase • Many communications have been presented to
(11.36%) compared to 2016, following the national congresses such as the LXIX SEN Annual
upward trend in recent years. Meeting and international conferences, such as
the Alzheimer's Global Summit or the AAIC2017.
• During this year, the CIEN Foundation has Thus, the work carried out by the different
continued its international collaborations, so departments related to studies such as the
that 50% of the publications were studies carried Vallecas Project has been made known.
out in collaboration with foreign institutions,
43.75% with Spanish institutions and the • For the fifth consecutive year, the well
remaining 6.25% were carried out only by established Vallecas Project Volunteer’s Day
researchers from the CIEN Foundation. was held, in recognition of the collaboration of
these people in favor of research.
• The Clinical Trial Sat-CIEN-02 obtained approval
from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and • Alzheimer Leon participates in the funding of
Health Products and the Central Ethics the Vallecas Project, thanks to the financial
Committee. support of dozens of sponsors, who in the last
edition of the Mano Amiga Awards, joined their
• During 2017, the CIEN Foundation maintains its efforts to support research projects focused on
participation as co-owner in two active patent the disease.
application, in national phases of different
countries, both licensed to Raman Health • Throughout 2017, the Tissue Bank reached 800
Technologies. record cases and the number of donated brains
from the Alzheimer Center exceeded 130.
• In May 2017, the fourth yearly evaluation of the
Vallecas Project concluded with 772 • The Carlos III Institute of Health approved the
participants. At the end of the year, 658 new development phase of the National
volunteers from the fifth visit have been assessed Network of Biobanks Platform (2018-2020), to
and the sixth visit has begun, of which 276 have which the BT-CIEN belongs.
been evauated.
• The Scientific Director of BT-CIEN, was
• Presentation of the canonical appointed Coordinator of the Spanish
brain "Vallecas Brain", a virtual Group of Neuropathology of the Spanish
model of the brain obtained Society of Neurology and the Spanish
from magnetic resonance Society of Pathology.
images of more than 1,000
healthy brains, volunteers of • Several educational cooperation
the Vallecas Project, without agreements have been signed between
dementia, aged between 70 different public universities and the CIEN
and 85 years. The model serves Foundation to carry out external
as a reference template with internships (curricular and extracurricular).
which to compare individual
magnetic resonance images
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