Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA)

Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA)

Description

The Universidade da Coruña (UDC) promotes this research center to host research groups working on projects related to research in the chemical and biological sciences.

It is within this framework of promoting research activity that the UDC, in seeking to strengthen relationships between university research and business, houses interdisciplinary research groups and teams in the chemical, biological, environmental, in the CICA laboratories, with the following basic objectives:

• The development of research projects financed by both public and private agencies, as well as companies.
• The transfer of research results within the framework of their intellectual protection.
• The training of research personnel, both national and international collaboration between different groups and reference research centers.
• The dissemination of results through publications, doctoral theses, scientific meetings and activities aimed at the community.

Research Areas and Groups

Biotechnology:

• EXPRELA- Regulation of gene expression and applications
• GIBE – Evolutionary Biology Research Group
• MICROALGAE- Study and applications of Microalgae
• NEUROVER- Vertebrate Neuroanatomy
• XENOMAR- Genetics of Marine Organisms

Environment:

• AQUATERRA- Sustainable Management of Water and Soil Resources
• BIOCOST- Coastal Biology
• BIOENGIN- Environmental Bioengineering and Quality Control
• EnQA- Environmental Chemical Engineering
• GRICA- Grupo de Investigación en Cambio Ambiental
• QANAP- Applied Analytical Chemistry

Biomedicine:

• CICA-INIBIC strategic grouping

New Materials:

• METMED- Metals in Environment and Medicine
• QUIMOLMAT- Molecular and Materials Chemistry
• REACT!- Chemical Reactivity and Photoreactivity