Prof. Claudio A. Naranjo, from the Clinical Pharmacology Program of the Addiction Research Foundation of Toronto, Canada, gave the lecture Present trends in the pharmacotherapy of drug and medicinal product addiction. This is the eighth submission organized by the Esteve Foundation and was held on May 16, 1991 at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy. Dr.…
1991
The Academic Year 1990-1991 of the Catalan Society of Pharmacology was inaugurated with the lecture Applications of ubiquitin in drug development, imparted by Dr. Marta Izquierdo, from the Department of Molecular Biology of the Faculty of Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid. This meeting was held at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia…
1990
The diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases found different opportunities for the development of new agents in the new techniques of molecular biology. The goal of this international symposium, organized by the Esteve Foundation on October 7-10, 1990 in Majorca, was to ascertain how the potential of modern biomedical science could be extrapolated into reality…
1990
The increasing demand for information in today’s society has reached every area of knowledge. This obviously includes science, which should be able to respond with utmost efficacy and rigor. On May 30, 1990, the Esteve Foundation organized an international symposium on scientific journalism at the Association of Journalists of Catalonia, which gathered scientists, journalists and…
1990
Dr. Graham Darby, from the Department of Molecular Science of The Wellcome Foundation in Beckenham, England, imparted the seventh annual lecture of the Esteve Foundation: Current and future possibilities in the treatment of AIDS with antiviral agents. The meeting was held at the Royal Academy of Pharmacy on May 10, 1990 and its contents is…
1990On January 17, 1990, the Esteve Foundation organized the round table Clinical trial methodology with the purpose of clarifying and unifying the basic criteria for good clinical trial performance in our country. The submissions presented during this event are gathered in Dr. Antonio Esteve’s Monograph number 11. Among others, the topics discussed were practical problems…
1990A group of Spanish investigators from universities, healthcare sector, hospital centers and the pharmaceutical industry participated in the round table Biotechnology in pharmaceutical application to make their experimental work known. The objective was to analyze the scientific development of biotechnology in the pharmaceutical field, to describe the advances made and to design new strategies for…
1989
Use of cultured human hepatocytes for potential risk prediction of drug-induced hepatotoxicity is the title of the inaugural lecture of the Academic Year 1989-1990 of the Catalan Society of Pharmacology, with the collaboration of the Esteve Foundation. The lecture was imparted by José V. Castell, from the Research Center of the Hospital La Fe of…
1989
In the year 1989, the Esteve Foundation started a new activity: Research Prizes would be awarded biennially to the best work on pharmacological research performed by Spanish authors and published in a scientific journal. The jury of this first call decided to award the prize to the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine…
1989
Dr. Jan Stjernswärd, Head of the Cancer Unit of the World Health Organization, has dedicated his entire career to oncology and has worked in Sweden, Kenya and Switzerland. Dr. Stjernswärd has given his best efforts to the issues of cancer prevention and control, and has struggled for optimal treatment to be within everybody’s reach. That…
1989