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The challenge: scientific excellence

Around 400 professionals from 25 countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia work in CIMA in cooperation with other international centers. Seminars and training sessions are held every week, with guest speakers from Spain and abroad. Over a hundred articles are published each year in specialized journals.

CIMA takes part in all the competitive research programs on a regional, national and international level. It is recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science as a Center of Innovation and Technology and forms part of one of the groups in the first program of Strategic National Consortiums in Technical Research (CENIT). It also belongs to the Thematic Networks of Cooperative Research of the Carlos III Institute of Health. In the European Union Framework Program, CIMA takes part in the Excellence Networks (research in priority thematic areas), Strep projects (European competition) and has obtained Marie Curie grants (mobility of research personnel). It receives funding from international organizations such as the Michael J. Fox Foundation for research into Parkinson’s Disease, the Human Frontier Science Program, the American Association for Cancer Research, the National Institutes of Health in the USA and the Pfizer Foundation.

CIMA has established its own auditing system for scientific quality: specialists of international renown analyze the approach, methods and results of research work and suggest recommendations for improvement.