11th edition – Vic, March, 5-6 2008
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2008Recientes aportaciones de los estudios funcionales a la investigación farmacológica básica
Functional studies are those where research on the effect of drugs is based on experiments whose evaluated endpoint is directly related to a specific functionality. In these studies, a given response of the drug on the whole body or on one tissue is “visualized”. In the framework of the Barcelona Ciencia 2007 initiative, the Esteve…
2007Presentation of the Esteve Foundation by Josep Esteve at the 8th Meeting of the Catalan Society for the History of Pharmacy (2007)
Josep Esteve Soler, President of the Board of Trustees of the Esteve Foundation, lectured on the work of this institution at the VIII Meeting of the Catalan Society for the History of Pharmacy, where proposals by other entities such as the Uriach Foundation and the Vila Casas Private Foundation were also made known. The act…
2007Special collaboration: ‘Who is making science? Scientists as makers of science policy (2007)
Scientific entrepreneurs are individuals who act as links between the fields of science, politics and economics, thereby generating technoscientific systems and often defining scientific policies and research lines. This international workshop was organized by the Science History Group of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the CSIC’s Unit of Comparative Politics and the renowned Max Planck Institute…
2007Presentation of the Booklet ‘Twelve women in the 20th century’s biomedicine’ (2007)
This new publication by the Esteve Foundation compiles the scientific submissions and the biographies of twelve top-rank female scientists. However, this publication is not merely a collection of the findings that made them become part of the history of medicine –seven of them were Nobel prize winners– but also an account of the obstacles they had…
2007Presentation of the Booklet ‘Science and mass media’ (2007)
The first Science supplement of La Vanguardia saw the light on 10 October 1982. Exactly 25 years later, in the scope of Barcelona’s Year of Science, the Esteve Foundation’s Booklet Science and Mass Media was presented in homage to this publishing initiative and to the person that was key to its design and conception: science journalist Vladimir de Semir. The…
2007From the desk to the raised platform: written and oral presentations in biomedicine (2007)
How scientific results should be communicated orally and in writing. That was the double objective of the freely chosen subject imparted during the last two weeks of September 2007 at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University, in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation. The originality of this teaching proposal, unprecedented in…
200710th Award: Application of Stereocontrolled Stepwise [3+2] Cycloadditions to the Preparation of Inhibitors of alpha(4) beta(1)-Integrin-Mediated Hepatic Melanoma Metastasis
A team from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of the Basque Country that was awarded the 10th Research Prize granted by the Esteve Foundation. Among 45 nominated articles, the development of a family of synthetic molecules able to restrain liver metastases by 50% in experimental melanoma was considered by the international jury as…
2007