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COMMUNICATION PROGRAMME
8th Annual CIBER-BBN Conference
The 8th Annual CIBER-BBN Conference was held on 9, 10 and 11 November 2014 in Gerona .
The main objective of the conference was, once again, to favour the meeting of the groups, the identifica- tion of synergies and shared knowledge between members of the consortium, and to show the results of the collaborative research conducted in the framework of intramural projects .
About 200 people attended the conference, essentially members of CIBER-BBN groups, but also from other research institutions and centres .
The day before the conference started (November 9), the Scientific Director held a prior meeting with the PIs of the consortium at the same location where the conference was held . They discussed some of the ongoing actions of the CIBER-BBN launched within the new strategic plan, budget aspects, etc .
Two plenary sessions conducted by internationally relevant researchers were held . These two sessions were:
• Overview of the development of nanomedicine in Europe and the next trends. Patrick Boisseau, European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine.
• Nanoparticulate biomaterials for gene and drug delivery. Matthias Epple, Centre for Medical Biotechnology, Universität Duisburg-Essen .
As a novelty this year, presentations for projects and lines of research were grouped by pathologies . There- fore, there were sessions on neurology, respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, ophthalmology, cardiology, implants, rare diseases, chronic diseases and oncology . Each session was mo- derated by a clinical specialist who analyzed the capability of translating and transferring the results to the clinical practice, indicating in some cases possible realignments of the project for the purpose of improving these aspects .
Furthermore, members of our Advisory Committees (External Scientific Committee and Advisory Medical Committee), with whom the Steering Committee held a meeting at the end of the event, also attended . The conference also included a poster session and a special session for showing new lines of research conducted by young researchers .
Events and activities
In 2014, CIBER-BBN attended a large number of internationally relevant scientific forums and meetings, some of the most representative of which are shown below .
• ARTEMIS Pre-Brokerage Event 2014 Brussels, February 2014 . • CEBR Annual Meeting, Coimbra, April 2014 . • Internal CTLS Congress, Paris, June 2014 . • Life Sciences Workshop . Madrid Network–US Davis Research . CSIC, Madrid, June 2014 . • BIO International Convention, San Diego, USA, June 2014 .
• BIOSPAIN, Santiago de Compostela, September 2014 . • Flag-ERA Graphene networking event, Barcelona, October 2014 . • ETP Nanomedicine Annual Event and General Assembly 2014, San Sebastián, October 2014 . • Bio-Europe, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2014 .
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