Regarding the UCLM's own research centers, IDINE is aimed at multidisciplinary research into the molecular, cellular, organic, psychological, and social bases of motor, sensory and cognitive neurological disabilities.
On the other hand, the CRIB groups research lines in Growth Biology, Differentiation and Cell Activation; Tumor Stem Cells; Diabetes and Obesity with Aging; Cell Physiology and Dynamics; Medical Mycology; Human Neuroanatomy; Molecular Oncology; Molecular Virology; and Health, Medicine and Society.
85 researchers belong to CRIB , distributed in 13 research groups on the UCLM campuses of Albacete, Ciudad Real and Toledo, while IDINE has 12 research groups comprising a total of 65 researchers. Researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy, in addition to belonging to the CRIB, contribute with new lines of research oriented to the design and synthesis of molecules with antitumor activity and neuropharmaceuticals for the study of developmental and aging processes; and molecular mechanisms involved in cell death.
The scientific activity performed by the different research groups of the Faculty of Medicine of Ciudad Real revolves around the study of neurosciences approached from the molecular, cellular, physiological, pharmacological, behavioral and historical perspectives. In this sense, we have been working on the study of neuroplasticity and neurodegeneration processes in pathophysiological conditions, the molecular and cellular bases of synaptic plasticity processes in the Central Nervous System, the modulation of neurotransmitter receptors and their implication in neurodegenerative diseases, oxidative stress and its implication in neurodegeneration processes, the interrelationships between health, medicine and society from a historical point of view, and studies of social cognition and social neuroscience, among others. In the last five years, this research has been and is being funded with more than 20 competitive projects from different regional, national, European and private agencies, of which 8 are still active during 2013. The quality of the results obtained has allowed us to generate in the last five years more than 110 articles in indexed journals of impact and more than 40 books or book chapters.
Regarding the Faculty of Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Nursing of Talavera de la Reina, some transdisciplinary research lines and groups are being developed that integrate the profiles of different researchers, such as the technological innovation applied to health, which is oriented to the study of the usefulness of different types of technological devices in the prevention and rehabilitation of people with different disorders, or the evaluation of health technologies, which studies the cost-effectiveness of some devices and health tools. The faculty also participates in inter-institutional projects, such as the PRECA study on the prevalence of mental illness in prisons or the study of the role of morphological processing in word recognition in children with and without reading disorders.
From the Faculty, diverse types of collaborations between health institutions from the regions have been developed. To highlight the link between the National Hospital of Paraplegics, where they are developing some projects and doctoral theses linked to the research lines previously cited, and where different clinical associate professors of the faculty work.
The U.S. of Nursing and Physiotherapy has different research lines related to their knowledge areas and counts with different health resources of the area, having a strong collaboration with the different hospitals in the city of Toledo (Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Hospital Virgen del Valle and Hospital Provincial), as well as the Health Centers, where doctoral theses are being developed and where associate professors of Health Sciences work. Likewise, the School of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry integrates both consolidated lines of research at the UCLM and emerging in the field of biomedicine and led by professors belonging to the CRIB. The main lines of research address the molecular characterization of adipokines, the study of placental metabolism and gestational diabetes, as well as the molecular characterization of metabolic alterations associated with the development of tumor phenotype.
The Albacete General University Hospital has more than 500 physicians. Between the clinical research groups of the different services include ophthalmology, neurology, geriatrics, oncology, cardiology, pneumology and internal medicine. In addition, the hospital has a Clinical-Experimental Research Unit, which has an animal facility, a Biobank, a Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, a Translational Oncology Unit, and a CAIBER Unit where support is provided for independent clinical trials. During 2012, a total of 38 projects obtained through competitive funding were active. Overall, more than 250 indexed articles have been published in the last 5 years.
The Ciudad Real General University Hospital has more than 500 physicians, 17% of whom hold a PhD degree. Between the different research groups from the different services, the most important are those of systems pathology, mechanical ventilation, endocrine pediatrics, surgery, neurology, dermatology, digestive and allergy (.: HGUCR – Grupos, Líneas y Áreas :.). Overall, during the last five years, they have obtained competitive funding to develop more than 20 research projects and have published more than 100 indexed articles.
The La Mancha Centro General Hospital has more than 300 physicians, 14% of whom hold a PhD degree. The research groups, among which epidemiology and medical and surgical pathology of the digestive tract stand out, have projects financed in competitive calls. In the last five years they have published more than 60 articles, many of them in the first quartile of their category according to JCR.