The community initiates in Clinical Hospital Research Institute with 540 professionals.

-Join 61 groups investigating five broad thematic areas designated as priority

– has a cross-sectional area of support with laboratories, BioBank and, soon, a cleanroom

Madrid, December of 2011- the community of Madrid is launching the Institute for health research of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, with 540 professionalsbetween researchers and support staff, belonging to the institutions that comprise it, and that last year more than 300 papers have been published in national and international scientific journals. These researchers work in 61 groups corresponding to the five major thematic areas that have been designated as priorities: Cardiovascular, Oncology, neuroscience, inflammatory, infectious, immune diseases and allergies and other major systems.

The health infrastructure also has a cross-sectional area of support to research that consists of several units: Genomics, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, phase I and supporting clinical trials, support innovation, methodology and clinical epidemiologyMedicine and surgery Experimental animalario, laboratories and operating rooms of experimental medicine, surgery guided by image, library and BioBank.

In this way, the clinician joins the network of research institutes that currently has the community of Madrid at hospitals in La Paz, the Princess, October 12, Ramon and Cajal, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Puerta de Hierro and Gregorio Marañón.

Health counseling, with the creation of research institutes, aims to increase efficiency in the use of human and material resources for health research, as well as increase the competitive capacity of the public hospitals with the uptake of funds for this activity at the regional levelnational and European.

The Institute is created from a collaboration agreement between the Madrid health service, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Foundation for biomedical research of the hospital and the lain Entralgo Agency.

Through this agreement the UC admits this unit 15 centres and workshops in support of research, such as Animalario, brain mapping, physical techniques, microanalysis, X-RAY diffraction, X.

Neuroscience, cardiology, and Oncology

There are 18 working groups with a total of 157 professionals researching disorders of personality, Neuropsychiatry and psiconeuroendocrinología, multiple sclerosis, brain mapping, neuromodulation and neurorreparación, animal models for the study of addiction, neurovascular, Neurobiology pathology of hearing in the area of neuroscienceglaucoma and eye inflammation, NEUROCOMPUTING and neurorobótica.

For its part, in the cardiovascular area 75 professionals integrated into 13 working groups are carrying out projects focusing on valvular disease and large vessels, structural heart disease, arrhythmias, myocardial and syndromes post-Exchange, cardiovascular prevention regeneration therapy, imaging of coronary diagnosis and Pharmacology techniquesPathophysiology and vascular biology.

Five research groups composed of 49 professionals working in the fields of Clinical Oncology, molecular biology and pathology of cancer and various mechanisms of signaling have been established in Oncology

Inflammatory, infectious diseases and other

Another area designated by the Institute as priority is inflammatory, infectious diseases, disorders Inmunitarios and allergy, which have been established five research groups with 90 professionals who work in the genetics of autoimmune diseases, musculoskeletal, retroviruses, hepatitis and tropical diseases, infections pathology of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Also investigated in food allergies and inhalants.

And in the area of other large systems there are 20 groups with a total of 169 professionals who research in diseases of the digestive tract, Endocrinology and metabolic diseases (diabetes and obesity), medical physics, biomedical image, medicine of the sport, clinical pharmacology, epidemiology and health services, technology and surgical innovation, research in care of the patient, hematology, urology, cinesiterapia, ageing, occupational and pathology of urgencies and emergencies.

Mission and objectives

Research Institute mission is to promote and consolidate the activities of biomedical research of the groups that comprise it, building an organization of excellence where health care practice-oriented scientific knowledge is generated, and therefore to the improvement of the health of citizens. Through this Institute, the Hospital Clínico San Carlos aims to strengthen and develop partnerships between the research groups of the Centre and the groups of the Complutense University of Madrid, primary care and other health centres of the Madrid health service, opened further doors to future collaborations with other organizations dedicated to the research.

Scientific Director of the Institute is Dr. Elena Urcelay, researcher at the service of Immunology of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, where leads several projects, as head of the Group of autoimmune disease genetics ”, focused on the genetic study of multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease, among others.

Currently the Institute is preparing to get health accreditation as Research Institute by the Ministry of science and innovation.