CIBERER: Spanish national network for research on rare diseases: A highly productive collaborative initiative

CIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedica...

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Autores: Luque, Juan, Mendes, Ingrid, Gómez, Beatriz, Morte, Beatriz, López de Heredia, Miguel de, Herreras, Enrique, Corrochano, Virginia, Bueren, Juan, Gallano, Pía, Artuch, Rafael, Fillat i Fonts, Cristina, Pérez Jurado, Luis Alberto, Montoliu, Lluis, Carracedo, Ángel, Millán, José M., Webb, Susan M., Palau, Francesc, CIBERER Network, Lapunzina, Pablo Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/53514
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cge.14113
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Genetics
New therapeutic approaches
Novel genes
Rare diseases
Research network
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Sumario:CIBER (Center for Biomedical Network Research; Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red) is a public national consortium created in 2006 under the umbrella of the Spanish National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). This innovative research structure comprises 11 different specific areas dedicated to the main public health priorities in the National Health System. CIBERER, the thematic area of CIBER focused on rare diseases (RDs) currently consists of 75 research groups belonging to universities, research centers, and hospitals of the entire country. CIBERER's mission is to be a center prioritizing and favoring collaboration and cooperation between biomedical and clinical research groups, with special emphasis on the aspects of genetic, molecular, biochemical, and cellular research of RDs. This research is the basis for providing new tools for the diagnosis and therapy of low-prevalence diseases, in line with the International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) objectives, thus favoring translational research between the scientific environment of the laboratory and the clinical setting of health centers. In this article, we intend to review CIBERER's 15-year journey and summarize the main results obtained in terms of internationalization, scientific production, contributions toward the discovery of new therapies and novel genes associated to diseases, cooperation with patients' associations and many other topics related to RD research.