Infectious Diseases

2023 Activity indicators

2 European H2020 competitive projects: EDCTP2, IMI-COMBACTE-NET
13 national competitive public projects: ISCIII
16 private led projects
66 clinical led studies
12 competitive HR contracts
110 publications
IF: 992.80
Q1 publications: 53 (48%)
D1 publications: 26 (24%)
2 thesis
3 awards
3 consensus documents, 1 clinical guideline, 3 technical reports, 3 recommendations
Project evaluators for national institutions: 10 PI
Project evaluators for international institutions: 7 PI
Members of editorial committees: 7 PI
1 European priority application (21382486.5.) "Differences in salivary ACE2 activity between infected and uninfected adult and pediatric populations exposed to SARS-CoV-2" with extension PCT/EP2023/082280 "Markers associated with the microbiota of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL)"
3 visitors welcomed and 17 months of stay:
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Open University of Catalonia
- Bahia University (Brazil)
12 months of stay in foreign centers:
- University of California San Francisco (USA)
- Vitalant Research Center (San Francisco, USA)

Rotation of two researchers from the group, as part of their competitive contracts, for 6 months at the University of San Francisco/Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco (United States). An institution of renowned prestige in research ranging from the epidemiology of blood donors to cell therapy and virus discovery.
Sergio Serrano-Villar et al. Microbiome-derived cobalamin and succinyl-CoA as biomarkers for improved screening of anal cancer. Nat Med. 2023 Jul;29(7):1738-1749. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02407-3. PMID: 37464040
A project to provide an accurate diagnostic test for anal cancer funded by the Fundación la Caixa to Dr. Sergio Serrano.
The development of the prestigious European MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship grant awarded to the postdoctoral researcher Elena Moreno and supervised by Dr. Sergio Serrano for the development of the project "MicrobiomE-associaTEd boosters Of immune Responses (METEOR study): experimental characterization and clinical exploitation" has started.
Success in the AES 2023 Call: 3 health research projects (PI23/01896; PI23/00302; PI23/00099); 4 competitive HR contracts in research; 1 Sara Borrell (CD23/00163), 1 Juan Rodés (JR23/00057), 2 Río Hortega (CM23/00079 and CM23/00045)

	Article	Accum. FI	Mean FI	Articles Q1 or Q2	% in Q1 or Q2	Articles D1	% on D1
2019	105	371.58	3.91	67	64	21	20
2020	112	638.63	5.70	82	73	36	32
2021	100	673.17	6.73	76	76	26	26
2022	87	800.64	9.20	64	74	19	22
2023	110	992.80	10.24	79	72	26	24
	514	23476.80	7.16	368	72	128	25