The Interuniversity Network of Teaching Innovation in Pharmacology constitutes an initiative of more than five years created to provide a common space where to share and exchange teaching experiences in this area. This includes research results and the material elaborated in different aspects of teaching innovation used in the teaching-learning process in Pharmacology in different…
2020
Last Saturday, February 29, 2020, died in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) at the age of 81 Sergio Erill Sáez (1938-2020), a pharmacologist who helped to consolidate clinical pharmacology in Catalonia and Spain in the 1970s. Aggregate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1969-76), Professor of Pharmacology at the University…
2020Biomedical professionals need to be able to communicate their research proposals and findings effectively in writing. However, most professionals receive little specific training in scientific writing. Many have mistaken views about what good writing is and how to achieve it. Writing in a language that is not your mother tongue makes it even more difficult…
2022On February 27 was held the 3rd Conference of the Observatory PerCientEx (Science Journalism Excellence) at the facilities of CosmoCaixa, with the collaboration of the Dr. Antoni Esteve Foundation. During the event, we talk to the authors of the three reports of scientific excellence at international level. Michele Catanzaro PerCientEx coordinator and journalist for El Periodico,…
2020G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a large superfamily of proteins that respond to a variety of extracellular stimuli ranging from photons and small molecules to peptides and proteins, such as hormones, neurotransmitters and paracrine agents which activate transduction pathways of signals and, finally, give rise to specific cellular responses. In humans there are more than…
2020Audiovisual formats are becoming increasingly more important, both in obtaining resources for research and in scientific dissemination. This is particularly true if it reaches the target public in an attractive, contemporary and understandable way. This new course from the Esteve Foundation intends to set the basis on how to convey scientific projects by recording and…
2021The course The scientist with the media returned on October 14 and 15, 2020 to the TVE studios in Sant Cugat to introduce scientists to the operation of a journalistic newsroom. Organized again by the Dr. Antoni Esteve Foundation, Indagando TV, the CSIC and the RTVE Institute, this two-day experience allows to know the dynamics…
2020
The Dr. Antoni Esteve Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) have launched Writing for the Biomedical Sciences, a new online course aimed at those who want to improve their skills in scientific writing in English. This course, that begar on 2020 March 11th, lasting a total of 13 weeks and comprising 50 hours (2 ECTS) of student’s work, represents a…
2020Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method in line with the directives of the creation the European Higher Education Area and the approach of the Bologna Declaration, which require that the teaching-learning process facilitates the development of skills, so that students are more autonomous in managing learning. This teaching-learning process focusing on the student, underlines self-directed…
2020Starring William Hurt and directed by Randa Haines, The Doctor (1991) tells the story of Jack MacKee, a cold-hearted and distant doctor with his patients whose life takes a turn when diagnosed with an illness. From that moment on, he becomes one more patient in his own hospital and will know first-hand how his patients…
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