IDIVAL obtains 2 research contracts in the Health Strategic Action 2019

The Strategic Action includes a set of annual biomedical research promotion programs promoted by the Carlos III Health Institute, essential for research in the healthcare world of our country. The programs include grants for the development of research projects, for mobility, and contracts of diverse scope and grants for participation in Networks, Consortiums and Platforms of the Carlos III Health Institute itself.

• Río Hortega Contracts: The 2019 Río Hortega Contracts call finances the hiring of professionals, who have passed the Specialized Health Training, in public and private non-profit health entities linked or arranged with the NHS and with care activity. They will develop a training plan in research in health sciences and technologies that will combine with assistance activity corresponding to their specialty.
• Sara Borrell Contracts: The 2019 Sara Borrell Contracts call finances the hiring of researchers, who have recently obtained the title of doctor (after January 1, 2015) in the field of health sciences and technologies, to improve their training. The receiving research groups must be different and belong to a center other than the group with which the candidates made their doctoral thesis, unless the candidate has made a postdoctoral stay abroad with a duration of at least one year.

In the Resolution of the ISCIII of September 20, which proposes the provisional relationship for the granting of Río Hortega and Sara Borrell Contracts for the 2019 Call of the Strategic Action in Health, IDIVAL has received concessions in both programs, specifically:

• Río Hortega Contracts: positive resolution in 1 contract to Dr. Alejandra Comins Boo for an amount of € 53,732, from the Transplant and Autoimmunity Group, led by Dr. Marcos López Hoyos.
• Sara Borrell Contracts: Positive resolution in 1 contract to Dr. Lorena García Hevia for an amount of € 80,598, from the Nanomedicine Group, led by Dr. Monica López Fanarraga.

This type of aid is of special importance insofar as they contribute to the recruitment and training of talent in our environment within the IDIVAL Research Groups.