The Spanish National Health School hosted on Tuesday 7th of May the "http://www.ciberdem.org/agenda/jornadas_fenin-_regic_-_semicyuc05_3571eng.pdf" Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Conference in Health Sciences, organized by the Network of Clinical Research Managers (Regic), Carlos III Health Institute, the Spanish federation of technological companies applied to health (FENIM), the Spanish Platform of innovation in technology applied to health, the National Health School, and the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and coronary units (SEMICYUC).The head of knowledge transfer and innovation at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Raquel Egea, moderated the first debate of the conference focused in the innovation applied to science. Experts in knowledge transfer discussed the social, economic and political commitment to support biomedical innovation.After a second discussion on innovation in the hospital environment, the project manager in knowledge transfer and innovation at VHIR, José Valenzuela, presented two new projects: an in vitro method of diagnosis and prognosis for the early detection of brain injuries, designed by the Neurovascular Diseases Group led by Dr. Joan Montaner, and another in vitro method for the diagnosis and prognosis of renal cell cancer, developed by the CIBBIM- Nanomedicine research group in Kidney Physiopathology, led by Dr. Anna Meseguer. The director of Carlos III Health Institute, Dr. Antonio Andreu, closed the conference.