The Granada Node has ten members. Most of them are professors at the University of Granada. The research of the members of this node is focused on the fields of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, where software development plays an important role.

Researchers participating in the node

Principal Investigator: Miguel Ángel Montero Alonso (Universidad de Granada)

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Main lines of investigation

The main lines of research (see poster) are:

  • Multivariate analysis of omic data
  • Data fusion and data mining of biomedic data
  • Modelling of the dynamics of biological processes
  • Measures of agreement, classification and diagnosis
  • Causal inference
  • Meta-analysis
  • Text mining
  • Probabilistic inverse problems
  • Coding in R, Python, PHP, C++/Delphi, Mathematica, Matlab, Stata

In these lines, some fields of application are framed, such as

  • Disease classification and biomarker discovery
  • Modelling and analysis of metabolism dynamics
  • Development of computational methods in the field of biomechanics
  • Optimization of biomedical sensors
  • Analysis of the epidemiology of cancer
  • Latent class analysis in medical diagnosis
  • Analysis of the dynamics of epidemiological processes
  • Analysis of electronic patient records by text mining
  • Software development for the analysis of genomic data
  • Software development for the analysis of inter-rater agreement

Institutions present in the node

National universities

  • Universidad de Granada
  • Universidade de Vigo

  • Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo

Biostatistics consulting activities

They are carried out under three perspectives:

(A) RESEARCH CONTRACTS, by means of which all or part of the members of the NODE collaborate with various entities by means of an economic counterpart, in scientific and technological activities.

(B) COLLABORATION IN PUBLISHED ARTICLES, whereby individual members of the team provide statistical advice on various scientific papers that are published outside the field of statistics. Since the collaboration is very intensive, the consequence is that the article will include the statistician as co-author. In the last 10 years this has resulted in 228 publications.

(C) NON-STATISTIC RESEARCH PROJECTS, whereby members of the group collaborate with other non-statistical groups in the medical field.

Entities and groups with which it collaborates

Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía (IEA)

Fundación Andaluza para la integración social del enfermo mental

Abbot Laboratorios

Puleva Food, S.A.

Puleva Biotech, S.A.

Universidad de Almería

Instituto de Investigación Biosanitario de Granada (ibs.GRANADA)

Instituto Mixto de Deporte y Salud (IMUDS) de Granada

Asociación de síndromes clínicos en psicosis con factores genéticos, infecciosos y ambientales (P06-CTS-1686)

Impacto de los factores de riesgo del individuo, el vehículo y el ambiente sobre la morbimortalidad por accidentes de tráfico (P06-CTS-1524)

Papel de la nutrición y la genética materna sobre la programación del desarrollo del tejido adiposo fetal. Búsqueda de marcadores de riesgo de obesidad en etapas precoces de la vida (P06-CTS-2341)

Early nutrition programming long term follow up of efficacy and safety trials and integrated epidemiological, genetic, animal, consumer and economic research (EARNEST). VI Programa Marco de la U.E.

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)

SiDOR (Statistical Inference, Decision and Operations Research). Universidad de Vigo. Grupo de referencia competitiva – I01 (ED431C 2016-040)

CINBIO – Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas (ED431G/02)

C3i “Coordenaçao Interdisciplinar para a Investigaçao e Innovaçao” del Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre (Portugal). Coordinador Institucional: João Emilio Alves, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre

Grupo de Estudios Cuantitativos Aplicados a las Ciencias Sociales” integrado dentro de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Cuantitativos Aplicados (RIDECA). Coordinador Institucional: Dr. Carlos Bouza

SPORT Research Group (CTS024)

Impacto de los factores de riesgo del individuo, el vehículo y el ambiente sobre la morbimortalidad por accidentes de tráfico (P06-CTS-1524)

Papel de la nutrición y la genética materna sobre la programación del desarrollo del tejido adiposo fetal. Búsqueda de marcadores de riesgo de obesidad en etapas precoces de la vida (P06-CTS-2341)

Early nutrition programming long term follow up of efficacy and safety trials and integrated epidemiological, genetic, animal, consumer and economic research (EARNEST). VI Programa Marco de la U.E.

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)

List of node members

  • Pedro J. Femia Marzo

    Universidad de Granada

  • Ana Eugenia Marín Jiménez

    Universidad de Granada

  • Jordi Martorell Marugán

    Universidad de Granada

  • Juan Antonio Villatoro García

    Universidad de Granada

  • Juan de Dios Luna del Castillo

    Universidad de Granada

  • Juan Manuel Melchor Rodríguez

    Comité EjecutivoUniversidad de Granada

  • Juan Manuel Praena Fernández

    Universidad de Granada

  • Manuela Expósito Ruiz

    Universidad de Granada

  • María Álvarez Hernández

    Centro Universitario de la Defensa

  • Miguel Ángel Luque Fernández

    Universidad de Granada

  • Miguel Ángel Montero Alonso

    Principal InvestigatorUniversidad de Granada

  • Pedro María Carmona Sáez

    Universidad de Granada
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