The Dr.C. Gerardo Guillén Nieto, Director of Biomedical Research at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) , Dr. C. Tania Crombet Ramos, Director of Clinical Research at the Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) and Dr.C. Ernesto Altshuler Álvarez, Professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Havana, were elected as members of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
They join as members of TWAS the doctors of science: Lilliam Álvarez Díaz, Academic Secretary of the Cuban Academy of Sciences; Luis Herrera Martínez, recognized member of the CIGB scientific collective and currently Scientific and Commercial Advisor of the BioCubaFarma Group, Lila Castellanos Serra, First Degree Biotechnologist and founder of the CIGB; Hugo Pérez Rojas, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics; María Guadalupe Guzmán, Head of the Center for Diagnostic and Reference Research (CIDR) of the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Pedro Kourí”, Manuel Limonta, Vice President of TWAS; and Vicente Vérez Bencomo, Director of the Finlay Vaccine Institute.
When the CIGB Communication Team interviewed Dr.C. Gerardo Guillén, replied:
“It really is an acknowledgment of Cuban science, an acknowledgment of the science system that has developed in Cuba. I don’t see it as an acknowledgment of myself, because everyone the results that have been obtained are collective results, the results of a great team of people that even go beyond the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) “.
Regulatory bodies of the Ministry of Public Health, medical personnel, institutions such as the National Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials (CENCEC), the Pedro Kourí Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK), the Civil Defense in Cuba, Centro Immunoassay (MIC); They are many. It is truly the marvel of the integration and the linking of research and production centers and with the ministries of Public Health in the country.
“It is really Fidel’s great vision that makes it possible to obtain these results in a country like Cuba. It is the creation of that system, it is not individualities. So much so, above all, is a recognition of Cuban science, that science system that Cuba has been able to develop despite the blockade, despite all the restrictions. And that is our satisfaction: that the results of Cuban scientists and science “.
TWAS is an autonomous international organization, founded in Trieste, Italy, in 1983, by a group of scientists led by the Pakistani Nobel Prize winner (now deceased) Abdus Salam.
Currently, TWAS has 584 members. A Council elected every three years by the members is responsible for supervising all the affairs of the Academy. Among its fundamental missions is the promotion of the advancement of science in developing countries, through the granting of scholarships and the granting of research.
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