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A new grant from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III for the recruitment of clinical investigators will be named after Dr. Juan Rodés

The Instituto de Salud Carlos III, the main public research organization that funds, manages and executes biomedical research in Spain, has published the bases of the Contracts Juan Rodes. The name is a tribute to the work of the physician who was Director General of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (2003-2008) in addition to one of the greatest supporters and Director of IDIBAPS (1997-2008) and emeritus professor at the UB's Faculty of Medicine. It is usual to name public calls for biomedical research contracts after illustrious figures, such as Ramón y Cajal, Miguel Servet or Sara Borrell. For the first time this award is given to someone still active as Dr. Juan Rodés, who puts his vast experience to serve the Health Research Institute (IIS) IDIBAPS - Hospital Clínic.

Contracts Juan Rodés suppose, within the Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su Empleabilidad (State Program for the Promotion of Talent and Employability), a new recruitment opportunity for medical staff with research experience in Sciences and Health Technologies. Candidates must have completed the research training program Río Hortega and only accredited Health Research Institutes will be able to apply. This is therefore a new way to attract and retain talent in these Institutes that represent the best of Spanish translational research.

The selection process will take into account both curricular merits of the candidates and the quality and impact of their scientific proposal. Their relation with the awarded institutes will be formalized through one-year contracts, extendable to a maximum of three years. The medical activity of the hired professionals will take place in hospitals within the accredited IIS and will be compatible with their research according to the proposal submitted to the call. This formula has a precedent in the IDIBAPS mixed career program which has helped to stabilize four clinical researchers in fields as different as diabetes, schizophrenia, respiratory disease and renal system.

These contracts represent a new recognition of the crucial role of Dr. Juan Rodés and IDIBAPS in Spanish biomedicine. Dr. Rodés finished medical school in 1963, specializing in internal medicine and digestive system. His remarkable career led him to participate in the creation of the Hepatology Unit of the Hospital Clínic that he would later manage. In the early 70s he participated very active in a reform to professionalize and democratize the former hospital of chairs and turning it into the specialized hospital it is today. Later, in the 90s, he headed the creation of the Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), consolidating the communion between basic research and clinical practice. His work has modernized biomedicine in Catalonia and Spain defending a model based on translational research.