2010 AnnuAl REpoRT - Ciberdem

Training programme
Introduction
The training of research staff was envisaged right from
the start of CIBERDEM and has been at the very centre
of strategic action plan design ever since, especially the
training of predoctoral staff and specialists with tenure.
With the idea of developing a training plan, overseeing its
work and guaranteeing its smooth running, CIBERDEM
appointed a training committee made up of: President
Antonio Zorzano and Committee members Ramon Gomis,
Angel Nadal and Joan J Vendrell.
The aim of the teaching programme is to encourage the
acquisition and transfer of knowledge, both basic and
clinical, among the research staff under training in the
groups which make up CIBERDEM in order to achieve the
general research objectives as defined while making better
use of the resources available. The teaching programme
represents an investment in our younger staff and in the
future of the consortium itself.
Objectives
Our objectives are to create and implement a research
staff training programme aimed especially at predoctoral
researchers which will help participants to consolidate
their investigative career, improve their future prospects
and bring added value to the groups to which they belong;
to enhance the methodological, technical, communicative
and organizational skills of the younger members of the
research staff and improve their scientific capacity in
general; and to increase mobility, communication and the
transfer of scientific knowledge between the groups which
make up CIBERDEM in order to develop their scientific
proficiency, both basic and clinical.
Achievements in 2010
Renewal of contracts for predoctoral research staff
Objective: A commitment to support young researchers so
that they can carry out their work in the field of diabetes
in a group of excellence linked to CIBERDEM. In 2010
CIBERDEM renewed the contracts of predoctoral grant
holders as shown below:
Name
M Carrasco
E Rubio
L Cadavez
V Moreno
Activity
The role of the blockage of type 1 VEGF receptor
(VEGFR1) in obtaining insulin from adult pancreatic
stem cells
The role of adipose tissue and adipokines in the
development of type 2 diabetes
The role of BACE in the functioning of pancreatic islets
The role of IRS-2 in the regeneration of the endocrine
pancreas
The organization of an annual training course in
translational matters with special emphasis on clinical
research, aimed at CIBERDEM’s predoctoral researchers
(contracted or attached)
Objective: Regular ongoing training for predoctoral
researchers (under contract or attached) covering subjects
of translational interest given by experienced CIBERDEM
specialists or outside speakers.
CIBERDEM organized the following training course:
Title Physiological Techniques Applied to Islets of Langerhans
Date 20-21 January, 2011
Venue Elx (Alicante)
Hours of classes 9 hours of classes divided between
theoretical and practical sessions:
a. Theory: 5 sessions of 1 hour each
b. Practicals: 3 hours
Participants 25 CIBERDEM junior researchers
Clinical Symposium on Diabetes and Associated
Metabolic Diseases
The first Clinical Symposium organized jointly with the MSD
pharmaceutical company, which sponsored the event.
Aimed exclusively at professional clinicians.
Objective: To create an environment for the dissemination
and exchange of research results. Papers were given by
international speakers and members of CIBERDEM.
Date 26-27 November, 2010
Venue Barcelona
Hours of classes 7 hours divided into 4 sessions
Participants 127 attendees, including 32 CIBERDEM
researchers
EASD/JDRF Joint Strategic Meeting: Type 1 Diabetes
With the participation of the European Association for the
Study of Diabetes (Europe) and the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation (USA).
Objective: A multi-disciplinary symposium whose aim was to
design future strategies for diabetes research, with special
emphasis on clinical and basic translational research with
real potential; to encourage cutting-edge research in an
international context and establish external collaboration in
CIBERDEM’s main fields of research; and to facilitate access
to high-level training in the sphere of diabetes research.
Date 18-19 November, 2010
Venue Barcelona
Hours of classes 18 hours of classes, divided into 4
sessions
Participants 100 postdoctoral students, including 12 from
CIBERDEM
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