Organizational Structure
He/she will be the figure with ultimate responsibility in the design and definition of the centre’s strategies and activities. He/she will actively work in coordination with the Area Coordinators. BIONAND’s Scientific Director will be one of the Principal Investigators (PI), so that in addition to his/her duties and responsibilities, as PI he/she will perform the duties of the post of Scientific Director, among which we can highlight:
- Planning strategies to improve the operation and performance of the centre.
- Coordinating and performing the monitoring of the scientific activities, establishing their order of priority and supervising their compliance.
- Preparing an annual report of the scientific activities.
- Preparing procedures and guidelines linked to scientific activity.
- Approving the reports regarding research work carried out by the centre.
- Facilitating and planning scientific activities in coordination with the reference centres (CABIMER and GENYO) of the other two Research Programs in Advanced Therapies of the Autonomous Region of Andalusia.
- Preparing strategies to implement the results of research performed in the centre within the Andalusian Public Health System.
- Preparing a portfolio of services as well as their implementation and monitoring.
- Preparing criteria for the joining and continuance of researchers.
- He/she will have a role facilitating the research work of the centre professionals.
This post will have a biannual rotational nature between the Principal Investigators, and at the final choice of the Scientific Director. In addition to the duties corresponding to his/her post as PI, he/she should assist the Scientific Director in representing the centre and in those activities of BIONAND’s management.
He/she will be responsible for the accounting, administration and management of human and financial resources. His/her main duties include:
- Assuming responsibility for centre operation, conservation of the equipment and facilities, management of the assigned budget and occupational safety and health aspects.
- Coordinating and managing the administrative personnel assigned to the centre, as well as performing their training and refresher plans.
- Coordinating and performing monitoring of the administrative management.
- Managing and coordinating the efficient operation of the Research Support Units.
- Preparing, when requested, a report including the activities performed and its corresponding financial balance sheet.
- Annually presenting a proposal for the annual income and expenditure budget including the proposals for rates of use of the different equipment and services, as well as providing for the acquisition of new material for the centre.
- Creating, planning and coordinating activities to improve the operation and quality of centre management.
Created with the purpose of advising and giving support to the executive team in defining and monitoring BIONAND’s scientific strategies.
It shall be composed of scientists previously selected by their international prestige as well as their experience in accordance with the different lines prioritized by BIONAND. Its main tasks include:
- Advising the management on the strategies necessary for successful operation of the centre.
- In the case of request from the management, assessing the proposals to acquire new equipment.
- Advising the management in the design of the centre’s scientific activities.
- Contributing to the periodical assessment of the scientific activity and production.
- Contributing to the increase in BIONAND’s visibility.
The composition of the Advisory Scientific Committee may vary every four years depending on the development of new strategic lines in the centre.
One for each subject area prioritized by the centre (Nanodiagnosis, Therapeutic Nanosystems and Nanobiotechnology). His/Her main activities include:
- Facilitating scientific activity performed in his/her area.
- Supporting and promoting the collaboration of the Principal Investigators of his/her area with the Principal Investigators of the other areas.
- Supporting and promoting the scientific and technical collaboration between research groups of his/her area and sector companies.
- Supervising the fluid communication between the different research teams.
- Informing the management, whenever requested, of the scientific activities performed in his/her area.
- Helping the Scientific Director in execution of strategic plans to implement the research results of the centre in the Andalusian Public Health System.
They will be researchers in charge of each research group. They must have active projects in research lines belonging to one of the areas. They have full research independence, with own personnel and funding. The Principal Investigators of BIONAND shall be divided into Emerging Principal Investigators and Consolidated Principal Investigators:
- Consolidated PIs: the overall nature of their CV should reflect that they have their own research with manifest leadership and with own funded staff. They must also accredit high-level scientific production (publications in international journals of the first quartile of their subject matter in the Science Citation Index, high accumulated impact factor, patents, etc.).
- Emerging PIs: they are researchers who, although they do not meet the conditions of Consolidated PIs, manage a research line of one of the centre’s groups, with competitive funding and own staff.
The Principal Investigators must:
- Coordinate and perform the monitoring of the scientific activity developed within their research group.
- Define the group’s research lines.
- Contribute to the development of scientific activity performed in their area.
- Inform, whenever required, their area coordinator of the stage and progress of their projects.
- Attempt, insofar as possible, a translational orientation in their research lines, collaborating with groups of clinical researchers and/or in the development of clinical tests.
This figure comprises all those researchers whose salary is funded by competitive funding (e.g.; Ramón y Cajal, Servet, JAE…). They will be associated to one of the different research groups within the three areas of the centre.
Principal Investigators of a research group in Andalusia that are associated to BIONAND but who perform their activity in another centre or institution. They can use the centre facilities, as well as choosing the same funding instruments, both of personnel and equipment, as the rest of the centre’s Principal Investigators (under agreement between BIONAND and the parent institution of the associate researcher). For the purposes of rights and obligations they will have the same position as the other Principal Investigators in the centre, although to maintain their link with BIONAND they must maintain active collaborations with some of the PIs physically located in it.
Doctoral and Post-doctoral researchers
They will be distributed in the different BIONAND research groups within the three areas of the centre.
They may belong to one of the areas, to a specific group or a Research Support Unit. They will give support to the centre researchers.
