CiMUS focuses on the prevention, knowledge, and treatment of chronic diseases in areas like Cancer, Endocrinology, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Genetic and bioinformatics, Nanomedicine or Drug development. As a result of an effort to gather in one single center USC’s excellent research in Biomedical science, CiMUS hosts both a panel of groups with great potential in basic research (as seen in publications appearing on renowned journals such as Nature, Science or Cell) and others with a stronger translational component, which are highly reputed in their fields. CiMUS main asset is a scientific staff of 30 Principal Investigators with several ones who have been/are ERC grant holders, 55 postdocs and over 100 predoctoral students. The center has promoted a spin-off and achieves every year around 20 doctoral theses, 175 scientific publications and 3 patents, in addition to its 20 international ongoing projects.