With the original title of Ensayos clínicos en intervenciones no farmacológicas (Non-pharmacological clinical trials) this round table was held in Bellaterra (May 24, 2000). It was chaired by Xavier Bonfil (Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona)and it was finally published as monograph number 30 (Monografías…
2000
The Esteve Foundation, together with the Catalan Society of Pharmacology, inaugurated the latter’s Academic Year 1999-2000 with the lecture New intracellular regulating and signaling mechanisms, imparted by Prof. Federico Mayor, Jr., from the Department of Molecular Biology and the Severo Ochoa Center of Molecular Biology (CSIC-UAM) of Madrid. The lecture was held at the Academy…
1999
The sixth Esteve Foundation Research Prize to the best work on pharmacological research was awarded this year to the study Choline Kinase inhibitors as a novel approach for antiproliferative drug design, published in Oncogene in 1997. The contribution of these scientists from the Biomedical Research Institute of the CSIC was an important step in the…
1999The round table “Modelos experimentales de patología infecciosa” (Experimental models in infectious diseases) was held in Barcelona (May 12, 1999). Dr. José María Miró and Dr. José María Gatell (Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínico Universitario Barcelona) chaired this meeting. All presentations and discussions were published in the monograph number 26 (“Monografías Dr. Antonio Esteve”, only…
1999The round table Educación sanitaria: información al paciente sobre medicamentos (Health education: patient information on drugs) was held in Barcelona (November 17, 1999). Carlos Codina, from the Pharmacy Service at the Hospital Clínico y Provincial de Barcelona, chaired the round table in which several health professionals presented their experience around patient-communication and drug-information. All presentations…
1999
The Esteve Foundation and the Catalan Society of Pharmacology held the lecture Experimental models in pharmacosexology, imparted by Prof. Manuel Mas, from the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna of Tenerife, at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands on November 4, 1998.
1998
The eighth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation, Variability in human drug response, was held on October 7-10, 1998 in Sitges. Aspects related to the variability in drug response were discussed. As shown in this symposium, the fact that each patient is different when given one same treatment entails both an obstacle and a…
1998Several Spanish researchers from very close fields like biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology were invited to participate in this round table (Signal transduction as pharmacological target). Chaired by Drs. J.M. Baeyens (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Universidad de Granada) and A. Zorzano (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Barcelona) this workshop was held in…
1998
This workshop was held in Sitges (Barcelona, Spain) on May 11-12, 1998. It was organized by both, the Esteve Foundation and the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Robert H. Fletcher and Suzanne W. Fletcher from Boston (Co-Editors of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Ex-Editors de Annals of Internal Medicine) chaired this meeting which was…
1998