research
The research at the University of Navarra aims to provide solutions to current challenges in health, social, environmental and economic needs. Attention to people and the environment is at the center of its activity. The research is carried out with multidisciplinary teams, in partnership with other centers, and with the goal to promote transfer and innovation in the service of the common good.
Researchers and centres
centers and research institutes
Technology Center CEIT
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Its main task is to carry out industrial projects of applied research and technological development , in partnership with the Departments of research and development of companies from various sectors (railway, aeronautics, automotive, health, manufacturing, energy or environment).
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high school of Tropical Health (ISTUN)
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+10 years of research in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases with the highest incidence in developing countries development, such as malaria, brucellosis, Chagas disease and AIDS, among others. This center will close its doors in the 23-24 academic year.
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thesis defended in the 2022/23 academic year. Of these, 33 with doctorate international
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new Chairs were created in the 2022/23 academic year. These are the Chair New Longevity Ideaand the Chair of business ISS; the Chair Campus Sustainability Home; the Chair Territory and Housing; the Chair for the development of Entrepreneurshipand the Chair Sanitas Health and Environment.
Strategy 2025
CCUN: a comprehensive center for the research and treatment of cancer.
550 medical specialists, researchers, nursing professionals, teachers and other experts make up the Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra. The new oncology center has as mission statement to integrate, coordinate and promote all the cancer care, research and professor activities carried out at the Clinic, the Cima and the Schools of area biosanitaria at campus in Pamplona and Madrid.
Strategy 2025
Advances in immunotherapy with the University of Oxford
The University, together with Oxford University, signed an agreement agreement to research and apply new techniques in immunotherapy to cancer patients. This is the only active agreement in this field that a Spanish university signature with the University of Oxford (NDM Department). This agreement aims to boost scientific production at both institutions, sharing strategic initiatives and supporting clinical trials at both centers. Another of its objectives is to promote the medical teaching of Degree and postgraduate program. In this sense, exchanges of staff and students will be facilitated and new opportunities will be explored for work in research programs, in addition to sharing materials and publications.
Strategy 2025
Partnership with high school Weizmann
The Cima and the high school Weizmann of Israel signed a agreement of research against cancer. The goal of this agreement is the launch of three pioneering biomedical projects that combine artificial intelligence, cutting-edge Genetics technology and advanced therapies. These projects are aimed at improving the treatment of lung and pancreatic cancer, two of the most lethal types of tumors; and multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer.
Strategy 2025
Chair Sanitas Health and Environment
This Chair was launched in May, financed by Sanitas and directed by high school BIOMA, will promote research and raise social awareness of the One Health concept, which addresses the connections between human health, animal health and the environment. It aims to establish, from scientific rigor, a series of evidence and recommendations to transform the environments in which we live in healthier spaces for people, with special focus on health environments to incorporate a net zero, sustainable and biophilic vision. It will then seek to extend its application to other urban environments.
Strategy 2025
BIOMATalks
In the framework of the project BIOMA Centerthe University and the Impactun Foundation launched BIOMATalks. goal The cycle of dialogues included three sessions at the Alumni building in Madrid on sustainability, with the aim of research and reflection on its three dimensions (economic, social and environmental) to become a driving force for innovation and change at business.
Grants to researchers
grants were awarded to persons with predoctoral contracts
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54,000 euros were awarded in the 2022/23 academic year for mobility to centers in 12 countries.
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Scholarships for staff researcher at training (PIF) were awarded by association de Amigos. Of these, 31 are new and 51 are renewals.
The amount of the grants was 1,729,176 euros.
NEW Strategy 2025
Grant Program research and Sustainability E2025
Promoted by the association of Friends, the program will involve the financing of some 20 doctoral thesis during the next four years in one of the areas of research of the University's Strategy 2025. These new grants are in addition to the existing scholarships promoted by association of Friends of the University (ADA).
research and transfer projects
euros is the global budget of the 655 current projects of all the centers of the university. Of this amount, 62,301,643 euros were allocated to 346 new projects in the 2022/23 academic year.
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grants for researcher hiring with a budget of 14,641,257 euros.
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new research and development +I contracts signed with companies for an amount of 23,662,660 euros.
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new contracts for clinical trials and 119 annexes to previous contracts promoted by the pharmaceutical industry with a total amount of 11,669,742 euros budget
Scientific production, publications and data of the Library Services
1.625
citable papers in Web of Science, 787 of them in the first quartile.
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works make up the scientific production of the University since its beginnings.
86.387
citations received for papers published in the year 2022 and indexed in Web of Science
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magazines and 40 monographs make up the catalog of the Publications Service
1.423.375
volumes make up the University's bibliographic collection.
Bibliographic collection by campus
Libraries
Campus Pamplona
1.338.705
IESE
Madrid/Barcelona
37.761
Tecnun Engineering
San Sebastian
43.253
Library Services
Campus Madrid
3.656
Reading posts by campus
Libraries
Campus Pamplona
2.220
IESE
Madrid/Barcelona
224
Tecnun Engineering
San Sebastian
668
Library Services
Campus Madrid
40
EUNSA
53.354
copies sold in 51 countries
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works published last year
Agreements, projects and awards
IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR CANCER PATIENTS
The University signed a agreement agreement with Oxford to research and apply new immunotherapy techniques to cancer patients. This is the only active agreement in this field that a Spanish university subscribes with the British university (NDM Department).
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LABORATORY OF INNOVATION WITH THE MIT
high school The average Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) signed a agreement with the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa for the creation of the City Science Lab Gipuzkoa, a new innovation laboratory that will allow working on projects to improve the mobility. The signature came about thanks to the academic partnership that the School of Engineering-Tecnun, MIT and the New mobility center of Gipuzkoa (Mubil) have maintained for years. Tecnun will actively participate in the projects and will be the headquarters, together with Mubil, of the new innovation laboratory .
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Strategy 2025
ReMeD: media resilience
A total of 2.9 million euros was awarded by the European Commission to project ReMed, led by School Communication. The group of work, whose goal is to research and propose solutions to make the media resilient to strengthen democracies in the digital society, is composed of 35 researchers from eight European universities.
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STUDY AND knowledge dissemination OF Philosophical Logic
Some thirty researchers from ten national and international institutions participated in the first meeting of PLEXUS, one of the research projects awarded to the University by the European Union. Coordinated by the School of Philosophy and Letters, the project received funding of 625,000 euros for the study and knowledge dissemination of Philosophical Logic.
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award NATIONAL Gregorio Marañón
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Full Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University and Full Professor attachment of Nutrition at Harvard University, received from the hands of the King and Queen of Spain the award Gregorio Marañón National de research in the area of Medicine. He was awarded for his unique contributions on the relevance of nutrition in preventive medicine and, in particular, of the Mediterraneanper diem expenses , as well as on behavioral intervention to change lifestyles.
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I First edition of the DATAI Awards
The high school of Science of the data and Artificial Intelligence celebrated the first edition of the award DATAI. work Researchers Miguel Valencia (Cima) and Francisco Planes (School of Engineering-Tecnun) were recognized for their projects on the application of artificial intelligence to neurological diseases and cancer therapies, respectively.
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Immunotherapy in melanoma and kidney cancer
Miguel Fernández de Sanmamed, a specialist at the Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra, received the CRIS Excellence Program, one of the most important private grants for research in Spain. His work obtained 1,250,000 euros over the next five years, funds that will be used to finance a project of research in immunotherapy in melanoma and kidney cancer to be developed between the Clinic and the Cima.
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award of Science in Spanish
Ignacio López-Goñi, Full Professor of Microbiology at the University, was distinguished with the award of Science in Spanish in the category "recognition of an outstanding career in science communication in Spanish". The award was awarded for the first time by the Foundation for the knowledge Madri+d.
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