The MEDINA Foundation begins to collaborate with the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada
This morning a first meeting took place between the executive members of the Biosanitary Research Institute (ibs.GRANADA) and the MEDINA Foundation (Foundation Center of Excellence in Research of Innovative Medicines in Andalusia) to initiate a new stage of strategic collaborations in the field of biosanitary research in Granada.
The scientific director of the Foundation, Olga Genilloud, has highlighted that “this is a unique opportunity within our trajectory in the PTS and in Granada to expand our network of collaborators. Although we are already working with many of the clinical and university research groups belonging to the IBS, it is key to our activity to be able to continue establishing new relationships and increase the possibilities of collaboration with members of the Institute”.
For his part, Diego Pozas, manager of the Foundation, has emphasized that “we want to continue increasing collaboration with the field of biomedical research in our environment. The opening of the new hospital and the transfer of the IBS make it essential to continue strengthening our ties”.
The meeting was attended by, among others, the managing director of the Granada Hospital Complex, Manuel Bayona, and the scientific director of the Biosanitary Research Institute, Nicolás Olea.
Bayona explained that they are attending this meeting with the aim of “generating strategic alliances that allow us to collaborate to promote biomedical research in Granada. We are lucky to have the MEDINA Foundation in Granada, which has a wide range of state-of-the-art technology. What we want to do, both MEDINA and the hospitals in Granada, is to collaborate so that our researchers can use these technological advances and can develop innovative research projects that have an international impact. Granada can become a reference center for biosanitary research, which is what we intend”.
Lastly, Olea highlighted that "one of the keys to our institute is the transfer of research results in two ways: that what is demanded by clinicians is known in the research centers and that what is produced by research centers is transferred to clinics. Visits to centers like MEDINA where there is already a very important and very serious history of collaboration between groups reaffirms that need for collaboration. MEDINA has ideas, technology, people and collaborative projects. We have a lot of questions."
The meeting concluded with a visit to the MEDINA Foundation facilities by the attendees who were able to see, first-hand, the projects that are being carried out in the different lines of research.
MEDINA Foundation
The MEDINA Foundation is a non-profit research center established in Granada from the alliance between the Junta de Andalucía, the University of Granada and Merck Sharp and Dohme de España SA The MEDINA Foundation has one of the largest and most diverse bookstores of natural products of microbial origin with a long list of successes in the discovery of new drug candidates from the pharmaceutical sector. Fundación MEDINA has unique experience in microbiology, natural product chemistry, high-density screening, as well as analytics and metabolomics, and is developing drug discovery programs in infectious diseases (including tuberculosis and parasitic diseases), oncology, and rare diseases. The MEDINA Foundation establishes collaborations and research contracts with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the discovery of new drugs or industrial products (for more information visit www.medinadiscovery.com).