IIS Aragón – Aragon Health Research Institute

The IIS Aragón Foundation is the Health Research Institute of the Hospital Complex made up of the Teaching and University Hospitals “Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa” and “Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet” and Primary Health Care. The University of Zaragoza and the Aragonese Institute of Health Sciences are associated with this Hospital Complex through different legal instruments.

The purposes of the IIS Aragón are:

• Approximate basic and applied research, clinical and health services.
• Create a quality research, care and teaching environment to which health professionals, training specialists, graduate and undergraduate students are exposed, to constitute the ideal place for the recruitment of talent and the location of the large scientific-technological facilities.

For the governance and management of the IIS Aragón and to facilitate the achievement of its objectives, a management entity with its own legal personality has been created. This entity incorporates the collegiate governing body with the representation of the entities that are associated to form the IIS Aragón. The IIS Aragón Foundation is the management entity of the IIS Aragón.

Therefore, IIS Aragón is a Health Research Institute established according to the model proposed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs in its Royal Decree 339/2004 and updated to the draft Royal Decree currently in the consultation phase.

The Aragon Health Research Institute was accredited according to the Order of May 6, 2015, issued by the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, according to the joint accreditation proposal of the Director of the Institute of Salud Carlos III and the Minister of Health, Social Welfare and Family of the Government of Aragon, after the previous favorable report issued by the Commission for the Evaluation of Accreditations of the Carlos III Health Institute.