The Spanish Ion channel Initiative (SICI) consortium: Ten years (2008-2018) of a network of excellence on ion channel research

Abstract

The Spanish Ion Channel Initiative consortium (SICI, http://sici.umh.es/default.htm) started in 2008 merging the research interests of 26 Spanish multidisciplinary groups focused on ion channel investigations from the pathophysiology to drug discovery. This initiative, partially supported by public Spanish government funds, was also the promoter of the Spanish Network on Ion Channels (RECI), a multidisciplinary network that includes more than 50 Spanish groups interested on ion channels (www.reci-ionchannel.org). In the present Special Issue, some SICI members, as well as RECI colleagues, wanted to contribute with the most update knowledge of representative ion channel research in Spain for the last 10 years.