Areas

Innovation

El Departamento de Innovación coordina al resto de departamentos, establece las directrices y selecciona cuáles serán los siguientes proyectos a desarrollar.

Coordinator

Tomás Zamora

Chronobiology

La mayoría de los fenómenos que se producen en el interior de nuestro organismo sufren una oscilación, que se repite cada 24 horas. Hay cambios en la presión arterial, el azúcar, la producción de hormonas, sueño y la temperatura corporal, que suele disminuir durante la noche o aumentar por el día. También existen otros ciclos más rápidos (intradiarios) o más lentos y sutiles como el ciclo lunar, las semanas o las estaciones todos ellos producen cambios fisiológicos directos o indirectos cuyo conocimiento y aplicación para mejorar la calidad del sueño, abre un campo absolutamente novedoso en ESCI.

Coordinator

Antonio Madrid

Functional nanotechnology, new materials and rest

Recent years have seen an exponential increase in the development of nanotechnologies and new materials. Their application in biomedical engineering is producing results and has proven to be a biocompatible and functional mechanism for human beings.

The nanotechnology line researches new technologies that prevent sleep disorders, reduce biological risks, improve the comfort of the sleeper and enhance the restorative function of sleep.

Coordinator

Tomás Zamora

Sport and recovery

Physical activity and sport are essential for maintaining good health. Today sport is a regular activity and lifestyle not just for athletes but also for many people competing in amateur categories, taking up a major part of their leisure time. Sport tires the body and mind at which point recovery is essential.

The sport and recovery line researches the best technologies to encourage the physical and mental recovery of athletes in their daily training, when competing and particularly when recovering from injury, either with or without surgery, improving their performance.

Coordinator

Nacho Nebot

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDS) and rest

MSDs are the result of diseases but also of repetitive daily activities (whether work-related or not), aging, postural risks or even the consequence of the somatization of stress and anxiety suffered by some people. MSDs, such as cervical and back pain, condition sleep quality as they produce discomfort and affect sleeping posture, causing disrupted sleep and altering latency and effective sleep time.

The MSDs line researches new preventive and palliative systems so that the body supports during sleep do not produce fatigue in the most vulnerable areas of the musculoskeletal system.

Coordinator

Lirios Dueñas

Pediatrics, child care and sleep

In the first years of life, good sleep quality is essential for physical, intellectual and behavioral development. However, one third of children suffer from a sleep problem or disorder that then leads to diseases such as childhood obesity and hyperactivity. In addition, children’s vulnerability means that the risks associated with sleep may encompass chemical, physical, mechanical, ergonomic and biological risks.

This line generates knowledge and development opportunities related to risk reduction, such as sudden infant death syndrome, childhood insomnia or apnea-hypopnea.

Coordinator

Gonzalo Pin

Food, microbiota and sleep

La microbiota humana es un complejo ecosistema de más de 10^14 bacterias y otros seres vivos, como virus bacteriófagos y levaduras, cuya función es mantener la diversidad de especies. En conjunto, se calcula que en cada ser humano residen a nivel del tracto digestivo entre 10 y 100 trillones de microorganismos. El microbioma es el conjunto de genes de la microbiota, que supera unas 100 veces el número de genes humanos. Este genoma colectivo da lugar a funciones que de forma aislada no podrían tener lugar. Se trata por tanto, la microbiota, de un ecosistema simbiótico con el ser humano, que interviene de forma esencial en el metabolismo de nutrientes y medicamentos, en la regulación de vías metabólicas, la motilidad intestinal, el desarrollo del sistema inmune de mucosas y sistémico, el mantenimiento de la integridad del epitelio intestinal, respiratorio y cutáneo, la producción de vitaminas y micronutrientes y metabolitos neuroactivos. La microbiota humana depende del ambiente, la alimentación, factores externos como el uso de medicamentos, de la edad,…, y varía entre individuos dentro de un cierto rango. Uno de los campos de investigación llevados a cabo por ESCI se centra en la relación entre microbiota y sueño, aspectos especialmente importantes en las primeras (colonización) y últimas (disbiosis) etapas de la vida.

Coordinator

Sergio Negre

Sleep disorders and prevention

There are six groups of sleep disorders according to the ICSD-2 classification (AASM): insomnia, respiratory disorders, hypersomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, parasomnia and movement disorders each of which requiring preventive measures, analysis and treatment.

The sleep disorders and prevention line researches technologies that could prevent, diagnose, monitor and treat any sleep disturbances that influence people’s health, productivity and performance.

Coordinator

Javier Puertas