Annual Scientific Report

NETWORKING
Spanish excellence networks (CIBERS, RETICS and CAIBER)
The Ministry of Science and Innovation promotes health research through the Carlos III Health Institute. In the last few years
much of its economical effort has focused on the consolidation of the Spanish National Research Networks. The Networked
Biomedical Research Centres (Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red, CIBERs), Health Cooperative Research Topic Networks
(Redes Temáticas de Investigación Cooperativa en Salud, RETICs), and the Networked Biomedical Research Support
Consortium - Spanish Clinical Trials Platform (Consorcio de Apoyo a la Investigación Biomédica en Red – Plataforma Española
de Ensayos Clínicos, CAIBER), represent a new way of understanding cooperative biomedical research that has given excellent
results during recent years.
The IDIBAPS participates in most of these virtual research structures and leads some of them. Investigators of the IDIBAPS
direct the following networks:
• Networked Biomedical Research Centre for Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, CIBERehd)
• Networked Biomedical Research Centre for Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (Centro de Investigación Biomédica
en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, CIBERDEM)
• CIBER for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES)
• AIDS Research Network (RIS)
• Spanish Multiple Sclerosis Network (REEM)
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