The Canary Islands Health Research Institute Foundation (FIISC) and the Canary Islands Health Research Institute (IISC), under the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, are allocating more than 700,000 euros to finance 56 health research projects that will be developed this 2025.
In total, the amount awarded last year by the FIISC amounts to 767,502.05 euros in three calls for the implementation of different research programs, development and innovation aimed at improving health care in the Canary Islands from various fields. These projects will be implemented this year after the final list of fundable initiatives is known.
The first call has 475,839.80 euros for twenty-five projects aimed at meeting the health needs of the population of the Canary Islands and improving the sustainability and solvency of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS). Within the framework of Primary Care and Public Health, and with an amount of 143,872 euros, twelve projects will be developed.
The last call covers plans for nursing care, mental health and addictions, as well as chronicity and health humanization, through nineteen projects that have a total of 147,790.25 euros.
Approved projects
The different public hospitals of the Canary Islands, as well as the Primary Care management teams and the general directorates of the SCS, will be able to launch the projects approved in the different calls.
In this sense, the approved investigations will cover, among other topics, the psychosocial and electrophysiological factors involved in addiction to video games and cannabis in young people, the care pathways of patients with diabetes in the Islands or the impact on the health of the population of La Palma due to the eruption of the Tajogaite volcano.
Precision medicine in ALS, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the SCS school nursing program, the phenotypic characterization of eosinophils in COPD exacerbation or the right cardiac catheterization of exercise in patients with scleroderma are other contents of the approved projects.
