Science communication is part of a scientist’s everyday life. Scientists must give talks, write papers and proposals, communicate with a variety of audiences, and educate others. This practice can aim to either generate support for scientific research or study, or to inform decision making, including political and ethical thinking. Some associations for scientific communication and…
2012
La Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve estuvo presente en el encuentro sobre farmacología más importante de Europa, el que organiza la EPHAR (Federation of European Pharmacological Societies) y que durante cuatro días promueve la comunicación científica entre farmacólogos de todo el continente. El sexto European Congress of Pharmacology recaló por primera vez en España y lo hizo del…
2012
The new advances in understanding the molecular and cellular bases of immune response opened a new era in the diagnosis and treatment of immune-mediated diseases. On June 14th, 2012, in Barcelona, the Caprese organization (within their training program Aula Ergos), in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation, organized a workshop on basic principles in immunology: immune-mediated…
2012
What causes a transplanted organ to be rejected? Can rejection be avoided? What is a compatible donor? Is there such a thing as completely compatible organs? These were some of the questions posed at the Science Café on Transplantation, the fourth and final café organized by by the Catalan Society of Immunology in collaboration with…
English remains one of the outstanding issues yet to be resolved among health professionals. Although 90% of biomedical English is Greek or Latin in origin, pronunciation and other aspects such as prepositions or prepositional verbs are the main problem areas for Spanish scientists. For that reason, on June 8-9, 2012, the Esteve Foundation launched the sixth edition…
2012
If standing up and speaking in front of an audience is a source of anxiety, the stress is heightened even more when the official language of the conference, meeting or congress is English. On the 18th and 19th of May 2012, the Esteve Foundation organized at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) the second edition of…
2012
The 25th edition of these training seminars to provide the basic skills and techniques to write and publish scientific articles in health sciences was held on May 9-10 2012 at the Col·legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris-Documentalistes de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). Esteve Fernandez, editor of Gaceta Sanitaria from 2004 to 2010, andAna Maria Garcia, editor of Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales,…
2012
The Esteve Foundation participated in the 1st Meeting of Residents in Anesthesiology, organized by the Catalan Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, held on May 4th, 2012, at the Hotel Torre Catalunya in Barcelona. The meeting consisted of presentations and contributions on education in medicine. After a review of the different training options open…
2012
Why do people have allergies? Are they proliferating? Do they have a genetic component? Can they be cured? These were just some of the questions posed at the third Science Café on Immunology organized by the Catalan Society of Immunology in collaboration with Dr. Antonio Esteve Foundation and a team of young researchers BIOcomuniCA’T. An…
2012
