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Special collaboration: X Spanish Conference of Biometry (2005)

Friday May 27th, 2005 Supervisor

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Special collaboration: III Meeting of Ethics Committees in University Research (2004)

Friday December 3rd, 2004 Supervisor

Subsequent to the two former editions held in Sitges and Murcia in 2002 and 2003, respectively, a third meeting of University Ethics Committees was held in Granada on December 2-3, 2004. In addition to reinforcing this kind of meetings, the aim was to disclose a number of scopes of action of these committees, such as…

Presentation of the document on ‘Women and science’ (2004)

Thursday November 18th, 2004 Supervisor

Even though women represent 59% of all bachelors degrees, they only account for 12.8% of the professors of Spanish universities; institutions like the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, or the Catalan Foundation for Research, have no women in their staffs; there is not one single female professor of Pediatrics or Gynecology and Obstetrics in…

Special collaboration: Symposium ‘Chemistry, Medicine and Crime: Mateu J.B. Orfila (1787-1853) and his times’ (2004)

Friday March 19th, 2004 Supervisor

The Esteve Foundation supported the Symposium “Orfila and his times” that it was held in Maó (Minorca) on the 19th-20th March 2004. It aimed to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of Mateu J. Bonaventura Orfila (1787- 1853), a very relevant toxicologist and chemist, and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris…

Special collaboration: Seminar on Women and Science (2003)

Wednesday November 12th, 2003 Supervisor

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…

Special collaboration: II Meeting of Bioethics Committees of Spanish Universities (2003)

Saturday October 18th, 2003 Supervisor

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…

Special collaboration: Scientific writing and editing (2003)

Sunday September 21st, 2003 Supervisor

Reference document base in clinical research (2003)

Thursday September 18th, 2003 Supervisor

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…

Special collaboration: Scientific writing and editing (2002)

Friday September 20th, 2002 Supervisor

The publisher of Annals of Epidemiology, Prof. Richard Rothenberg, imparted the course Scientific Writing and Editing in the 13th edition of the Summer School of Public Health in Maó (Minorca) on September 18-20. This Professor of the Emory University School of Medicine also discussed aspects of scientific writing, i.e. the commonest errors involved in writing a study, or…

Special collaboration: Center of Terminology of Catalonia: Terms of clinical research with medicinal products (2001)

Sunday November 18th, 2001 Supervisor

Many terms in the field of medicinal products do not have a correct, normalized translation into Catalan. These terms are usually translated literally and incorrectly from English, or lack homogeneous, unifying criteria. Accordingly, an agreement was reached between the Esteve Foundation and TERMCAT (Center of Catalan Terminology, created by the Institut d’Estudis Catalans) to warrant the correct extension…