One-day meeting on biomedical journalism (2005)

“A reflection on the position of biomedical journalism today.” This sentence could summarize the philosophy of the last meeting organized by the Esteve Foundation in collaboration with the Observatory of Scientific Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. The meeting was held last 7th of October in S’Agaró, Girona, and was divided in three…

2005

Aula El País: Ana Cuenda, from Dundee University (Scotland)

Born more than thirty years ago with the purpose of overshadowing the United States, it is apparently achieving its objective. The EMBL –the European Molecular Biology Laboratory headquartered in Heidelberg– is presently one of the reference research centers in Europe. Eighty-five percent of the scientists that have worked in its premises have decided to pursue their…

2005

Aula El País: Luis Serrano, from European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg)

Born more than thirty years ago with the purpose of overshadowing the United States, it is apparently achieving its objective. The EMBL –the European Molecular Biology Laboratory headquartered in Heidelberg– is presently one of the reference research centers in Europe. Eighty-five percent of the scientists that have worked in its premises have decided to pursue…

2005

5ª edición - Bilbao, 28 y 29 de junio de 2005

5th edition – Bilbao, June 28-29 2005

All the seminars on this topic are targeted to postgraduates in health sciences with the aim to improve their knowledge and skills to write and publish scientific papers. Dr. Esteve Fernández Muñoz (from the Institut Català d’Oncologia, lecturer of the Universitat de Barcelona and co-coordinator of the Master on Public Health at the Universitat Pompeu…

2005

Debates on scientific journalism 2nd: SARS coverage (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

4ª edición - Málaga, 26 y 27 de enero de 2005

4th edition – Málaga, January 26-27 2005

The 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…

6th edition – Palma de Mallorca, December, 16-17 2004

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