Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS) is a public institution dependent on the Government of Aragon devoted to Health Sciences development. It was created by the Regional Health Law (6/2002) and its objective is to generate knowledge in order to fulfill the main needs in health, producing scientific results capable of raising resources and promoting research amongst the public hospitals and health services in the Region of Aragon. In order to fulfill its aims, and according to the framework agreement signed between the Regional Health System of Aragon (owner of the hospitals) and the IACS, all the research groups and infrastructures from public hospitals and health centres are managed by IACS, besides their structural dependence.
