Generalitat injected 2.5 million to launch Center for Aging

Among other things, a coin to allow hiring manager henceforth, he will be responsible for taking the next steps to develop the initiative aimed at unifying the province and the Valencian Community. international reference While addressing the challenges posed by the accelerated aging of populations in most developed countries.

In addition, between this contract and eligible expenses outline of the project to build the center’s future headquartersa building that wants to be symbolic and will take place in it The land of the unfortunate expansion of the IFA, That the Generalitat is still in the process of recovering and re-establishing the Community’s fairgrounds. A land that Consell intends promoting a new pillar of attraction for innovative companiesThis project will also fit.

However, from the department headed by Josefina Bueno, the most important thing about the deal is that the financial foundation is a international call for the recruitment of researchers and therefore, provide content to the venture. In other words, it will make it easier for you to start working for what it was designed for.

In this context, one of the objectives of ICAR is to promote study and research in the following areas. molecular biology or geneticsas well as the use of computation and systems biology and artificial intelligence for understanding the biology of aging.

Likewise, studies on its development are also aimed. new therapies or treatments for the development of new diseases as well as age-related diseases biomarkers makes them easy to detect.

But the idea is to go further and the center also serves as a reference and nodal point. Interaction with other research institutes specializes in the subject. Similarly, among the missions of ICAR formation programs from seminars to internships, under the supervision of doctoral theses, as well as information sharing and sharing with all kinds of events and organizations. scientific congresses.

in universities

They remind us that although a significant part of the activity will take place in the new headquarters building, which will be built in the IFA environment in the future, there will be no need to wait for the building to be opened for use from the Ministry of Innovation. To start the activity, As approved research programs can begin to be developed on-site, both University of Alicanteas of Miguel Hernandez of Elchecollaborators on the project.

The board of trustees of the foundation plans to conduct a study regarding the recruitment of the manager who will be responsible for ICAR. public tender, with the advice scientific committee. An organization founded last February and led by molecular biologist María Blasco, who is the current director of the National Center for Cancer Research (CNIO).

Along with him, the biochemist and researcher at the Alicante Neuroscience Institute is part of this committee. Angela Nieto; Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Aging in Cologne, Linda Partridge; pharmacologist and specialist Pura Munoz; Co-founder of the Stanford Center for Longevity Thomas Rando; Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (California) Izpizua-Belmonte; Manuel Serrano, researcher at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute; and the Robert and Renee Belfer Endowed Professor for the Study of Neurodegenerative Diseases at Yeshiva University in New York, Ana Maria Raven.

Patents and initiatives

The agreement between the Ministry of Innovation and ICAR will subsidize nearly all of the center’s operating expenses, primarily in the first place. researcher salaries or incentive programs for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research. But it will also finance, for example, costs from the regulation of legislation. patents and utility models administrative costs of developing or commissioning start obtained from the application of the results obtained from the research. Competitively submitted aging research will also be subsidized.