The discovery of two new compounds likely to be developed as analgesics for inflammatory pain management is the study awarded with the ninth Research Prize of the Esteve Foundation. This work, published in February 2002 in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was performed jointly by investigators of the CSIC and of…
2005
In 2003, information on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was widely diffused in the media. The alarm spread on a possible global pandemic worldwide, particularly since the World Health Organization (WHO) made the unprecedented decision to warn against traveling to Western cities like Toronto. At that moment, SARS changed from being an isolated fact in…
2005
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The fourth edition of the seminar on How to write a scientific paper , held in the School of Medicine at the University of Malaga, included a lecture related to the topic of this course. The Associate Editor of the journal Hepatology, Dr. Vicente Arroyo (Director of the Institut de Malalties Digestives de l’Hospital Clínic…
2005The fourth seminar on ‘How to write a scientific paper’ organized by de Esteve Foundation was held in the School of Medicine, Unversity of Malaga (Spain) last January 16 and 17, 2005. Dr. Maria Isabel Lucena from the Department of Pharmacology was the co-ordinator of this activity. All the seminars on this topic are targeted…
That was the sixth training seminar for members of the Spanish Research Ethics Committees organised by the Esteve Foundation in Spain. It was held in Palma de Mallorca, December 16-17 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)…
2004
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…
2004
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…
2004
The 11th Esteve Foundation Symposium was held from 6-9 October 2004 in S’Agaro (Catalonia, Spain) on the topic Drug Transport(ers) and the Diseased Brain with 20 speakers from 11 countries all over the world. Lectures and discussions centered on strategies to overcome brain barriers to deliver (biopharmaceutical) drugs to the brain to treat CNS-disorders like…
2004
As part of the XVth Summer School of Public Health program, the Esteve Foundation organized a workshop entitled “Edit or Perish? The Challenges in Biomedical Edition”. It was chaired by Esteve Fernández (Institut Català d’Oncologia and Editor of the Spanish journal Gaceta Sanitaria). The workshop took place from September 21st to 22nd 2004, in Menorca (Balearic Islands,…
2004