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1. PROFILE AND PRESENTATION
• New call for Queen Sofia Foundation-MAPFRE media otlets), 220 in online media, plus the
Scholarship 2017 for a PhD in engineering, notorious impact on social media, especially
neuroscience, physics or bioinformatics to work Twitter.
in a research program focused on the study of
neurodegenerative disorders using an • Inauguration of the traditional "Christmas Tree of
approach that combines mathematical Memories" that returned in 2017 to be set up in
modeling and computational simulation in order the City of Madrid and the Villa de Vallecas
to achieve the characterization of predictive Market.
algorithms.
• In April 2017, an addendum to the 2012
• During 2017 the CIEN Foundation maintains its collaboration agreement between the Queen
commitment to the Youth Employment Sofía Foundation and the CIEN Foundation for
Operative Program of the Council of Education, reinforcing the FCIEN Tissue Bank (BT-CIEN)
Youth and Sports of the CAM, through the project was signed.
establishment of a new labor contract for the
promotion of youth employment and the • In May 2017, we participated in the meeting of
implementation of the Youth Guarantee in R+ the National Dementia Group by contributing to
D+I. the preparation of Axis IV of the National
Alzheimer's Plan.
• In September, the CIEN Foundation, jointly with
the Champalimaud Foundation, the Queen • On May 22, 2017, H.M. Kings Felipe and Letizia,
Sofia Foundation and CIBERNED, organized the accompanied by H.M. King Juan Carlos and
scientific meeting Global Summit on Alzheimer's Queen Sofia together with other personalities,
Research & Care Lisbon 2017. This special presided over the main celebration of the 40th
edition of the well establsihed International Anniversary of the Queen Sofia Foundation and
Conference of Research and Innovation in the 10th anniversary of the Queen Sofia
Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIIIEN), brought Foundation Alzheimer Center at the CIEN
together prestigious scientists, such as Nobel Foundation headquarters. During the event, the
Prize laureates in Medicine Richard Axel projects carried out by the Queen Sofía
(Columbia University) or John O'Keefe (University Foundation jointly with the CIEN Foundation
College London) at the Champalimaud Center were highlighted, such as the Vallecas Project
for the Unknown. The CIEN Foundation and its fight against Alzheimer's.
presented the predictive algorithm based on
5 years of research from the Vallecas
Project, to identify conversion variables
between a cognitively healthy status
and MCI.
• The number of impacts during 2017
on the mass media was around 2,400,
increasing by 48% compared to 2016.
Thus, for example only during the
actions corresponding to the
Alzheimer's Global Summit Lisbon 2017
(Lisbon, 18-21 September 2017), more than
350 impacts were generated in the press
(national and international agencies and
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