Page 8 - Memora anual Fundación CIEN 2017

▄▀ 1.1. Who we are

▄▀ A FOUNDATION FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR

The CIEN Foundation was established on December 27, 2002 by virtue of
a resolution of the Council of Ministers. It is defined as a non-profit public
sector Foundation, with State-wide scope and competence. Currently,
it depends on the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the
Carlos III Institute of Health.

Among its founding objectives are supporting, promoting and
coordinating research in neurological diseases, especially
neurodegenerative disorders. It also highlights its unifying and coordinating
role of leading Spanish research groups in this field.

The CIEN Foundation is based at the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center, whose
construction was called the Alzheimer Project. Once the Alzheimer Center was built, it was divided into
a residence for healthcare and follow-up of the patients and an Alzheimer Project Research Unit of
the (UIPA, for its acronym in Spanish), whose main project is the Vallecas Project.

▄▀ COLLABORATION WITH THE QUEEN SOFIA FOUNDATION

Since its establishment, the CIEN Foundation manages and coordinates
the Alzheimer Project Research Unit (UIPA), created by the Queen Sofia
Foundation and located in the Alzheimer Center that bears her name.

As indicated, the headquarters of the CIEN Foundation are located in
the Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Center, a pioneering center in
Spain in which to comprehensively address the consequences that
Alzheimer's disease causes both on patients and their family
environment. Since its opening in 2007, at the neighborhood of Vallecas,
Madrid, seeks to respond to the social health project proposed by the
Alzheimer Project of the Queen Sofia Foundation.

▄▀ A CENTER OF REFERENCE IN EUROPE ON ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RESEARCH

Only two institutions in Spain participate in the European Union Joint Programming
for Disease Neudegenerative Diseases (JPND): CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED.
Its excellent infrastructures, modern methodologies and cutting edge
technologies at their disposal as well as the available critical mass of
researchers were the criteria most valued by representatives of this
organization after being proposed by the Carlos III Institute of Health.

In addition, both CIEN Foundation as CIBERNED are integrated into the
international Network of Centers of Excellence in Research on
Neurodegeneration (COEN), mostly composed by European research
centers.