Dr.Antonio Esteve Foundation
TORRE ESTEVEPasseig de la Zona Franca, 109
08038 Barcelona
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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…
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…
Organized by the Research Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC), this conference took place on the 12th & 13th April, 2012, in the Prat de la Riba room of the institute. About two hundred people came to present and discuss various initiatives concerning access and processing of scientific information and related technological tools. Salvador Giner, president…
Vaccination is a way to activate the immune system and prevent serious illness and even death. Vaccines teach our body how to defend against an invasion by pathogens. In this second Science Café on Immunology, attendees discussed how vaccines work, their safety, and if some of them should be mandatory to ensure public health. The…
What is autoimmunity? What makes my immune system react against my own body? Are autoimmune diseases on the increase? Do external factors influence the development of these autoimmune diseases? These were some of the issues that were discussed at the first Science Café organized by the Catalan Society of Immunology in collaboration with Esteve Foundation.…
After three editions in Barcelona and Menorca, the course From the Desktop to the Stage: Writing and oral presentation of biomedical data returns to Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) as a summer course open to everyone. This training workshop deals with, firstly, basic skills and techniques for writing and publishing scientific papers in the field of…
In Barcelona, on the 24th May, 2011, the Esteve Foundation presented the second volume of the Notebook on Catalan Medical Eponomy, which brings together 33 new biographies of Catalan doctors that have given their name to a specific medical term. The book launch took place during the awards of Academy of Health and Medical Sciences of…
In Barcelona, on November 18th 2010, the Esteve Foundation, in collaboration with the Catalan Immunology Society and the European Federation of Immunological Societies, launched the book Els misteris del sistema immunitari. Com protegeix el nostre cos (Your amazing immune system. How it protects your body). It is a Catalan translationfrom the original Japanese edition and is aimed at…
Now that curricula are being adapted to European Higher Education Area, it is a good time to reorganize the public health content taught in different university programs. This discipline, which was already present in health degrees such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, has been incorporated more and more into other studies such as…
