CONSORCIO CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED

Institute Presentation

The Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, M.P. (CIBER) is a consortium that depends on Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad). Its obesity and nutrition subject area (CIBEROBN), consisting of 33 national work groups who have proven a scientific track record, focuses its research work on the study of obesity, nutrition and physical exercise for the purpose of generating useful knowledge for clinical practice, the food industry and society as a whole. CIBERobn’s mission is to promote the understanding of mechanisms contributing to the development of obesity in order to reduce its occurrence and prevalence as well as its complications, in addition to nutrition-related diseases. It also conducts multi-centre studies on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, the prevention of metabolic disorders, childhood and adolescent obesity and the relation between obesity and cancer. Through multidisciplinary work, CIBERobn is able to pool our efforts, optimize resources and take maximum advantage of generated knowledge to transfer it to clinical practice and, ultimately, to offer it to patients and to society as a whole.