Cima Universidad de Navarra
Science that changes lives
We are the research center of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Our more than 400 professionals research to cure unresolved
diseases with the most effective treatment for each patient.
Since its founding in 2004, Cima University of Navarra has been a leading biomedical research center, committed to translational science of excellence aimed at benefiting patients and society. Today, we reaffirm that commitment with a renewed mission: to generate disruptive, high-impact science with a translational focus, while training the scientists of the future.
As a university research institute of the University of Navarra, Cima shares its ideology, mission, and values, and actively contributes to the institution's teaching and training work. Our vision is clear: to consolidate our position as a leading center in the development and translation of advanced therapies that transform the approach to complex diseases and improve people's quality of life.
Our scientific activity focuses on addressing today's major clinical challenges. We are a leading center in the study of cancer and rare diseases, and we are actively working on the development of advanced therapies such as cell therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, and RNA therapy, which we consider to be fundamental pillars of personalized medicine today and in the future.
Cima is a multidisciplinary ecosystem that brings together more than 400 professionals—biologists, doctors, biochemists, pharmacists, engineers, and technicians—who work in synergy with the University of Navarra Clinic, other centers on the University of Navarra's biomedical and technological campus, and entities such as the University Hospital of Navarra and Navarrabiomed, within the framework of the Navarra Health Research Institute (IdiSNA).
Our commitment to open innovation is embodied in a robust Translation and Transfer Unit, which promotes collaboration with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and specialized Venture Capital firms to bring scientific discoveries from the laboratory to clinical practice. As a result of this strategy, Cima has generated more than 140 inventions and several spin-offs such as QimerBio Therapeutics, MIMO Biosciences, and Popcorn Therapeutics.
Thanks to the support of our donors and collaborators, we continue to advance in the development of innovative therapies, such as oncolytic viruses for pediatric brain tumors, gene therapies for rare diseases, and new personalized immunotherapy platforms.
At Cima, we believe that research is the engine of change. With your help, we will continue to drive innovation to improve the lives of people around the world.
Our vision is clear: to establish ourselves as a leading center in the development and translation of advanced therapies that improve people's quality of life.”
JOSÉ ANDRÉS GÓMEZ CANTERO
GENERAL DIRECTOR. CIMA UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
Get to know us
We carry out translational science by orienting our scientific projects to the real needs of the patient.
We are more than 400 professionals from 18 different countries with the purpose of promoting knowledge and innovation in advanced therapies for the benefit of patients and society as a whole.
Our scientific activity is structured in three strategic areas:
- Cancer Division
- DNA and RNA Division
- Technological Innovation Division
About us
We are a research center committed to excellence in translational research, based on novel biological knowledge and aimed at finding therapeutic solutions to patients' needs.
We are the biomedical research center of the Universidad de Navarra. With our academic status we work on a non-profit basis to reinvest the surpluses in the progress of our research and to fulfill our mission of service to patients and society.
Research to offer new solutions to sick people
We do research to offer new solutions to our patients. Together with the Clínica Universidad de Navarra, we conduct translational research of excellence to change the course of diseases.
We generate knowledge
We are part of the Universidad de Navarra. In addition to research, our professionals are in continuous training and teaching.
Open innovation
Our discoveries are transformed into new therapeutic alternatives. We collaborate with universities, technology centers, companies and national and international foundations to reach patients as soon as possible.
Multidisciplinary team
Our DNA includes the collaboration of professionals in multidisciplinary teams to approach research in a comprehensive manner, helping to ensure that discoveries reach the patient.
Committed to research
Organization
The governance of the Cima Universidad de Navarra involves the Foundation for Applied Medical Research (FIMA), the Universidad de Navarra, and the Center's Steering Committee composed of a Scientific Advisory Board and an External Scientific Council.
FIMA is the owning entity of Cima Universidad de Navarra.
Transparency
In its commitment to serve society, the Cima of the University presents the information of its research activity in compliance with the "Law of Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance".
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Mission
The mission of the Cima Universidad de Navarra is to generate high-impact, disruptive and translational science, training future scientists, for the benefit of patients and society.
Vision
Cima aspires to consolidate its position as a reference center in the development and translation of advanced therapies.
Values
Our scientific activity aspires to make present the values that guide and characterize the daily work of those who form the Universidad de Navarra and shape its environment and culture: excellent work, freedom, respect, multidisciplinarity, responsibility, service and internationality.
Research, like all other professional activities, must be governed by ethical codes that guarantee the integrity with which it is carried out, for the benefit of both the credibility of its results and the people who carry it out.
The research activity carried out at Cima follows the ethical principles that govern the Universidad de Navarra of which it is a part. Thus, its code of conduct incorporates the contents of the main documents that address these aspects in the international scientific community: the Singapore Declaration on Integrity in Research and the European Code of Conduct for Integrity in Research.
Taking these aspects into account, we understand appropriate conduct to be that which, by making family and professional life compatible, contributes to creating a positive and stimulating work environment that aspires to maximum scientific excellence.
Basic principles
- Priority to the dignity of the person. Attention to both the researchers and the rest of the research center staff as well as the patient who is the subject of the research. Special relevance to the compatibility of work and family life, respect for freedom and non-discrimination.
- Value of a job well done: Integrity, Honesty in all aspects of the research; Responsibility in the execution; Good management of the research.
- Cordiality in human relations. Professional courtesy and impartiality in labor relations.
Criteria for proper investigative conduct
- Follow the fundamental elements contained in the "Good Research Practices" contained in the European Code of Conduct for Integrity in Research, which every researcher should know and apply.
- Researchers and other employees of the Cima are also responsible for the proper handling of experimental animals, as established in the Institutional Statement on the Use of Experimental Animals of the Universidad de Navarra.
- As the Cima is a research center of the Universidad de Navarra, the researchers assume in their work the responsibility for the training and promotion of the people under their care, especially the younger ones, both undergraduate and graduate students. This requires availability and generosity of time and resources.
- The Cima seeks to carry out translational research that reaches the patient, in the conduct of researchers translates into the responsibility to ensure the protection of the intellectual property of their work.
- In order to guarantee a work environment that facilitates coexistence, it must be taken into account the appropriateness in dress, in the way of expressing oneself and behaving with the basic principles that govern the center.