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Andalusia begins a multicenter trial to manufacture and implant artificial corneas in patients with severe ulcers for whom there is currently no effective therapeutic alternative. This project, the first of its kind in Spain, began to be developed this February, once authorization from the Spanish Medicines Agency had been received. Five Andalusian hospitals, the University of Granada and the Regional Blood Transfusion Center and the Tissue Bank of Granada-Almería participate in the study, which is coordinated by the San Cecilio Hospital.

The Carlos III Health Institute will finance this year 736 new research projects for an amount close to 68 million euros, as resolved in the 2012 call for grants, which this year exceeds 28 projects and reduces by almost 7 million the aid with respect to the previous call.

The next February 11, 2013 will be held an open day of the CEI-Granada. The capacity in principle is limited to about 60 people so from this page you can download the registration form to it. It must be completed and sent to the email address that appears at the end of the program.

The qualifying jury constituted in order to award the prizes provided for in the 2012 call for the “Granada Official College of Physicians Award”, once the papers presented had been read and examined, considered them worthy, after which they opening of the envelopes that accompanied them, to those indicated below:

The Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada is configured as a multidisciplinary research space with the participation of research groups from the San Cecilio and Virgen de las Nieves University Hospitals in Granada, Primary Care and the University of Granada, being open to the incorporation of groups belonging to other centers of the Public Health System of the province of Granada.

Following the guidelines set out in the agreement, signed on April 14, between the Ministry of Health, the Andalusian Health Service, the University of Granada and the Foundation for Biosanitary Research in Eastern Andalusia (FIBAO), the Council has recently been established Rector of the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada