Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms

The Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms Group, whose head is Dr. Rafael Cantón and which is made up of nine other principal investigators as well as numerous pre- and post-doctoral researchers, technicians and other healthcare personnel, has participated in the last 5 years in 17 national and international research projects and in 15 contracts with pharmaceutical companies or companies dedicated to in vitro diagnostics. During this period of time this work has resulted in more than 190 publications in national and international journals with a high impact index and more than 11 doctoral theses. Likewise, more than 400 communications have been presented at numerous national and international congresses. And all this always seeking the highest excellence in the fields of population biology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory infection, microbiota, metagenomics and HIV.

2022 Activity indicators

6 competitive European projects (IMI, H2020, JPIAMR, FTI, MSCA-IF, ERC-StG, JPIAMR, HERA Incubator-ECDC).
11 national competitive led projects (ISCIII. CAM).
18 private diagnostic testing projects.
11 clinical led trials.
19 competitive HR contracts.
108 publications.
FI: 856.67
Publications in D1: 15 (13 %).
Publications in Q1: 66 (58 %).
2 supervised read thesis.
9 awards
Project evaluators: 7 PIs.
Members of editorial committees: 5 PIs.
4 clinical procedures - SEIMC.
3 technical document- SEMiPyP.
8 Recommendarion documents: ICOMEM, JPIAMR y SEIMC
Impact on society: 84 actions (interviews in the media, press releases, among others).
6 months of stay in foreign centers:
- CNRS - Sorbonne Université. Paris, France.
- Statens Serum Institute (Henrik Hasman) Copenhagen, Denmark.
- U. Bioinformatics. ISCIII. Madrid
16 visitors hosted and 47 months of stay:
- UPM, UCM, UAM and UAH.
- Schwabe Farma Ibérica
- University of Porto (Portugal)
- Basque Health Service (Osakidetza)
- Miguel Servet Hospital (Zaragoza)

Milestones

Presence of three researchers from the group within the "ranking" of the 5,000 most outstanding scientists in the Google Academic database published by the CSIC.
Award of one of the five ERC Starting Grants (ERC-StG) granted by the European Research Council to Spanish institutions in the area of biomedicine, placing the group at the forefront of research and recruitment of young talent in our country. Project "Constraints and Opportunities for Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bacterial Evolution" (HorizonGT- 101077809).
Participation at national and international level in resistance surveillance programs applying whole genome sequencing techniques with state-of-the-art platforms and innovative bioinformatics programs, in addition to attracting funding from foundations for projects addressing resistance with a OneHealth perspective focused on the participation of the hospital environment and its relationship with infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Participation in international Global Health programs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health for the development of projects for the diagnosis and monitoring of HIV infection in countries with low and medium resources, as well as the training of laboratory technicians from these countries for their reference centers.
Extensive fundraising through international projects, national projects in competitive calls of the ISCIII, the Community of Madrid, the Foundation for Knowledge madrimasd and GILEAD, including human resources and agreements with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostic companies (BioMerieux, Resistell, FastInov, Roche) and foundations (IMDEA, Familia Alonso, Soria Melguizo).

Bibliometrics

	Articles	Accum. IF	Mean IF	Articles Q1 or Q2	% in Q1 or Q2	Articles D1	% in D1
2018	79	321,98	4,24	55	70	22	28
2019	81	397,37	5,23	59	73	15	19
2020	104	413,83	4,36	72	69	19	18
2021	108	686,36	6,6	80	74	19	18
2022	114	856,67	8,16	85	75	15	13
	486	2676,21	5,72	351	72	90	19