Scientists from the Ministry of Health take their work to the streets at the European Researchers' Night
Researchers and professionals from the Andalusian public health system will take their scientific advances to the streets in a new edition of the European Researchers' Night, which will be held on September 30 in the different capitals of the autonomous community.
In its fifth edition, under the slogan "Women and men who do science for you," more than 15 researchers from 400 scientific institutions—including Andalusian universities—are participating, led by the Descubre Foundation. The squares and streets of Andalusia's eight capital cities will be filled, offering more than XNUMX activities, including workshops, micro-meetings, and performances, with the aim of making their scientific work visible to the public.
Specifically, from the Andalusian public health system, the Ministry of Health indicates in a statement, this edition will have the participation of thematic research centers such as the Pfizer Center-University of Granada-Andalusian Board of Genomics and Oncology Research (Genyo) , in Granada; and the Andalusian Center for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (Bionand), in Malaga. Health research institutes such as the Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Córdoba (Imibic) also participate; the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada (ibs.Granada); and the Malaga Biomedical Research Institute (Ibima); in addition to the Biobank of the Andalusian Public Health System, the Andalusian School of Public Health, the Virgen Macarena University Hospital in Seville and the Iavante line of the Progreso y Salud Foundation.
The professionals of these research platforms will address topics of interest to the population such as obesity, cancer or advances with stem cells, as well as carry out practical workshops such as basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, among others, and will promote the activity of the Andalusian registry of sample donors for biomedical research.
The European Night of Researchers is a scientific dissemination project funded by the European Commission and coordinated in Andalusia by the Discover Foundation. The objective of this meeting is to make current scientific advances reach citizens in an understandable way and also to attract the interest of the youngest people towards research.
The program of this fifth edition can be followed live on social networks using the hashtag #NIGHTSpain. To consult the rest of the programming in all the provinces, the Discover Foundation has set up a website for this purpose:https://lanochedelosinvestigadores.fundaciondescubre.es/portada/
The Ministry of Health of the Junta de Andalucía has provided the scientific community with the necessary resources for the development of a health research activity that improves the quality of life of citizens. In this sense, the Health Research and Innovation Strategy, which began in 2006 and has been recently renewed until 2018, has made this ideal scenario possible for professionals who wish to investigate.
The Andalusian Public Progress and Health Foundation, an entity dependent on the Ministry of Health, supports and manages research and innovation in the Andalusian public health system and provides support to centers, programs and projects in which scientific knowledge applied to health is generated .
