Three new projects for Salamanca with the help of the Areces Foundation

The Ramon Areces Foundation held the event of Aid Delivery for Research in Life Sciences and the subject that corresponds to its XVIII edition.

A total of 274 Spanish researchers, including three that come form the University of Salamanca, will work on projects for the next three years in centers of excellence. This is magnificent news is a success for our University and IBSAL. This will give them the possibility to research unusual diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, obesity, diabetes, renewable energies and new materials such as graphene, as well as other fields.

The event was chaired by the Trustee President of the Foundation, Florencio Lasaga and Carmen Vela, Secretary of the Status of Research, Development and Innovation and of Federico Mayor Zaragoza president of the Scientific Board of the Ramon Areces Foundation. My congratulations to the three researchers who in the name of the University of Salamanca and IBSAL will be able to go ahead with their projects, thanks to the Areces Foundation; María Ángeles Almeida deputy director of IBSAL; Enrique Ocio researcher of IBSAL; Eva Martín del Valle Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering.

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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