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GRANT OF SPANISH PATENTS:
• Péptido biomimético RGD con dominio de afinidad por el colágeno tipo i y sus usos como factor osteogénico. ES2417705B1 (20/05/2014).
• Medio de cultivo celular útil para la proliferacion in vitro de células del epitelio del limbo esclerocorneal. ES2409537B1 (24/04/2014).
CIBER-BBN-Industry Forums and Clinical Forums
CIBER-BBN periodically organizes forums with companies and clinical forums to facilitate the identification of common interest and favor collaborations between companies, research groups and clinical professio- nals . An international CIBER-Company forum was held in 2014:
• “Brain Health and Neurorestoration” (Barcelona, 10/9/2014) organized with the collaboration of Instituto Guttmann, Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche . 15 companies, 13 health care centres and 31 engineering/biomedicine/bioengineering academic centres participated in this international forum . From the 15 presentations, there were 2 keynote presentations by invited speakers, one concerning the next calls for proposal of the H2020 programme and the other concerning funding opportunities in H2020 . The latter presentation was conducted by the European project, CoWin, coordinator . 15 bilateral interviews were held in the evening session .
Work for defining a clinical forum to be held in 2015 with Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo has been started .
Transfer project call for proposal
A new action already contemplated in the 2014-2017 Strategic Plan which consists of a technology transfer project call for proposal has been set in motion . Said technology transfer essentially requires the presented projects to include the participation of at least 2 CIBER-BBN groups along with a company . This company must provide 50% of the funding for the project to be carried out (the company must provide monetary contribution and not contribution in kind) while CIBER-BBN provides the remaining 50% .
In 2014, the projects of the call for proposal launched in 2013 have been resolved (based on the evaluation by the ANEP) and 3 of the 4 presented projects have been set in motion . For this reason, a collaboration agreement has been negotiated for every project between CIBER and the company regulating the parti- cipation conditions of each party . The funding provided by CIBER-BBN for carrying out the 3 projects is 270,000€ in 2 years . For reasons of confidentiality, no further information will be provided for these transfer projects .
A new call for proposal, resolved in 2015, was opened at the end of 2014 . 6 new proposals were presented in said call for proposal .
Technology prioritization and assessment
A new process for prioritization and assessment of 11 CIBER-BBN technologies (patents and intramural projects) considering their transfer potential has been started in 2014 . This process will end in 2015 and has 3 phases:
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