CIB Margarita Salas receives the CSIC Center Lifetime Achievement Award in Transfer at the II Edition of the Transfer and Entrepreneurship Awards

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), a body attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, has decided on the II CSIC Awards for Transfer and Entrepreneurship. The Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research has been awarded in the modality of Trajectory of the CSIC center/institute in transfer for its proposal “Contributing to global wellbeing with the transfer of knowledge in biology,” which includes details of its technology portfolio in health, biotechnology, and circular economy.

A trajectory of decades that includes transferable results aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which generate products for society with an important social and economic impact on the future of therapies for different diseases and environmental protection.

In addition, the teams led by researchers Federico Dicenta (CEBAS-CSIC) and Ana María Serrano (ICP-CSIC) have been awarded in the modality of Technology Transfer for their plant breeding projects of the Fruit Tree Breeding Group and the development of a catalyst for N₂O elimination, respectively.

Sebastián Celestino (IAM-CSIC), Iñaki Comas (IBV-CSIC), and Gerard Llorach (ICM-CSIC), the latter in the novel category, were awarded in the Knowledge Transfer category for the proposals Building Tarteso, Genomics for public policy: control of pandemics, epidemics and diseases of the Global South, and a web application to visualize and access fishing data from the Catalan coast.

Nanological, a business idea led by Daniel Ramos (ICMM-CSIC), has received the award in the general category of Entrepreneurship, whereas Carla Ferrero (IQAC-CSIC) has been recognized in the novel category for her kit for rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections of the lower respiratory tract.

The II CSIC Awards for Transfer and Entrepreneurship aim to value and make visible the activities carried out by research staff and the Council's centers and institutes in these fields, as well as to promote the entrepreneurial culture, recognizing and giving visibility to their scientific and technological achievements.

The Awards are divided into four categories: Technology Transfer, focused on those projects that have been commercialized, through licensing and/or collaboration agreements; Knowledge Transfer, focused on knowledge transfer activities carried out by a person or research group aimed at achieving a social impact; Entrepreneurship, which takes into account those business ideas that have been assessed by the vice-presidency with competences in transfer and entrepreneurship; and CSIC center or institute trajectory in Transfer, where those transfer activities carried out by a CSIC center or institute will be valued.

CSIC Press Release (in Spanish): link.