Scientific Report 2014

Abstract

Over the past few years the CNIC has established itself as a center of research excellence in the international scientific arena through its scientific productivity and its innovative organizational and funding pattern. The CNIC’s impressive record is built on our diverse activities, which in addition to a dynamic research base include training programs, technological innovation and partnerships with the healthcare sector and industry. Our success is also the fruit of an open institutional environment that brings together investigators from diverse disciplines to work together to achieve the Center’s goals through innovation, efficiency, cooperation and enthusiasm. The CNIC’s management structure was praised as a model for other Spanish enterprises last June when Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy attended the annual governing council meeting of the Pro-CNIC Foundation, the panel of private companies whose continued support is so vital. [...]