Organization
Cima Universidad de Navarra
FIMA Board of Trustees
The Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada (FIMA) is the titular entity of the Cima Universidad de Navarra. It was established in 1998 and, after five decades of experience in biomedical research, FIMA created the Cima in 2004. The foundation consists of a president and eight trustees:
President: Mr. Enrique de Sendagorta.
Members of the Board of Trustees:
- Mr. Jorge Lucaya (vice-chairman)
- Mr. Igor Errasti (secretary)
- Ms. Paloma Grau (member)
- Ms. Isabel Estapé (member)
- Mr Antonio Catalán (member)
- Mr. Francisco Errasti (member)
- Ms. Yolanda Barcina (member)
- Dr. Jesús San Miguel (member)
Honorary members:
- Mr. Antonio Trueba
The Board of Trustees is responsible for appointing the Cima Steering Committee, proposed by the Universidad de Navarra.
Governing Bodies
The Cima of the Universidad de Navarra is a University Research Institute that depends organically on the Rectorate of the Universidad de Navarra.
Management Committee
The Cima Steering Committee is proposed by the Universidad de Navarra and its appointment corresponds to FIMA. Together with the Rectorate, it is responsible for balancing the budget.
José Andrés
Gómez Cantero
General director
jgcantero@unav.es
Antonio Pineda Lucena
Scientific Director
apinedal@unav.es
Scientific Management Area
María Mora Catalá
Deputy Director
mmora@unav.es
Development Area
Rubén Pío Osés
Deputy Scientific Director
rpio@unav.es
Lucía Vanrell Majo
Translation and Innovation Director
lvanrell@unav.es
Tech Transfer
Jorge Ramos
Manager
jramosar@unav.es
Management and People Area
The Internal Scientific Advisory Board is made up of researchers who are program directors in different scientific areas of the Cima and other prestigious researchers.
Dr. Ignacio Melero, President.
Dr. Antonio Pineda, Dr. Rubén Pío y Dra. Maite Huarte, Cima Division managers.
Dr. Felipe Prósper, Clinical investigator appointed by the Clinic.
Dra. Marta Alonso, Cima senior researcher.
The Scientific Advisory Board is made up of prestigious national and international researchers:
Margarita Del Val, PhD, Director of the Viral Immunology Unit of CSIC.
Jean Charles Soria, MD, PhD, Senior Vice President and Head of the Oncology Therapeutic Area of AMGEN.
Francisco Sánchez Madrid, PhD, Scientific Director of the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital de La Princesa.
Juan Bueren, PhD, Head of the Division of Innovative Therapies in the Hematopoietic System at CIEMAT.
Ángel Carracedo, MD, PhD, Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Miao Chih Tsai, PhD, Scientific Director of the RNA Medicine Program at Stanford University.
Jude Samulski, PhD, Director of the Center for Gene Therapy at the University of North Caroline. Founder of Askbio.
Kevin Haigis, PhD, Scientific Director, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Organizational structure at Cima
Cima is structured in 4 organizational areas that are oriented to promote scientific, management and transfer activities.
Scientific Management Area
Offers specialized support to research groups in non-administrative aspects to promote their scientific development.
Tech Transfer
Area Development Area
It focuses on securing funding to support the research structure and develop strategic projects. It will also coordinate the implementation of the Strategic Plan.