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The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has joined the ORCID community (in English, Open Researcher and Contributor ID) through a collaboration agreement, which both institutions signed on March 21, with the aim of to promote the exchange of scientific information on the CVN (Normalized Curriculum Vitae) and RECOLECTA platforms.

A scientific committee, made up of experts from different areas, will prepare a work plan with a calendar and budget to address the problem of decontamination by lindane generated by the company Inquinosa in the town of Sabiñánigo in Huesca and after the produced a spill into the Gállego river from the Bailín landfill, where the remains of this pesticide were deposited.

The next days 9, 10 and 11 June will take place the presentation of the projects financed by CEI BioTic in the III Call for R + D + i projects Commitment to research and development "."

Nicolás Olea, scientific director of the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada, will expose the problems for the health of children derived from the presence of toxins in food packaging this Saturday at the conference Healthy food at school? A pending subject ""

The Andalusian Biomedical Research Ethics Portal (PEIBA) is the only application method for obtaining an ethical opinion in Andalusia and the only requirement is to have an active digital certificate. This pioneering initiative in Spain will allow any person, be it a researcher, promoter, organization or authorized person, to request the ethical evaluation of any type of research in an agile and comfortable way, as well as to download the ethical opinion, once their project has been valued.

The celebration took place on April 10 in the Assembly Hall of the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, organized by the Milk Bank of this hospital, FIBAO and the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada.

The Index Foundation, whose president Mr. Manuel Rodriguez Amezcua is a researcher at the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada, receives the Medes-Medicina en Español 2013 award. The prestigious award was presented at the Royal National Academy of Medicine in the presence of notable world authorities of the science