In the year of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, Aula El País and the Esteve Foundation presented the book Rosalind Franklin, the dark lady of DNA on November 14, 2003. Written by British journalist Brenda Maddox, the biography reviews the career of the scientist who first produced…
2003
In the scope of the Science Week, a seminar on Women and Science was held last November 12 at the University of Barcelona, sponsored by the Esteve Foundation, among others. The meeting was inaugurated by the Principals of the different universities and by the Institutional Coordinator of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (High…
2003
Last November, the University of Murcia organized the second meeting of Bioethics Committees of Spanish Universities, sponsored by the Esteve Foundation, among others. The intention of these meetings is to share the experiences available in the different bioethics committees or commissions, i.e. aspects like ethics or the issues regarding research and teaching involved in animal…
2003
This project of the Esteve Foundation was initiated to compile and classify a number of free-access documents likely to be of interest in the field of pharmacotherapeutic research. This is a database that includes the original documents and also their translation where no Castilian and Catalan versions are available. While the documents are selected according…
2003
This prize, offered biennially by the Esteve Foundation to the best work on pharmacological research, was awarded this year to Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, current Research Director of the Hospital and Foundation Carlos Haya, for the study An anorexic lipid mediator regulated by feeding, published in Nature (2001; 414:209-12). In this work, the main contribution was the discovery…
2003
That was the fifth training seminar for members of the Spanish Research Ethics Committees. It was held in Donostia (San Sebastián, Spain), 3-4 June 2003. Dr. Josep-E. Baños (Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) and Dr. Maria Isabel Lucena (Department of Pharmacology, University of Malaga) were the teachers and coordinators of…
2003
Under the title From Mendel to postgenomics, the century of genetics, the Faculty of Experimental Sciences and Health of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation, offered a lecture on April 25, 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA. The lecture was imparted…
2003
Antonio Esteve Subirana, founder of Laboratorios Dr. Esteve, was born on December 23, 1902. To celebrate the centennial of his birth, a commemorative meeting was held on the 11th of February 2003 at the Llotja de Mar of Barcelona, attended by public figures of the scientific, academic and political environments. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former Director-General…
2003
