Scientist of CIB coordinate summer schools at UIMP on emerging fields in biomedicine and biotechnology

Several researchers from CIB coordinate Summer School Workshop at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) which will be held in Santander during July and August. The courses will be teached by both national and international experts. In both academic events, the young scientist will learn about emergent scientific and technological advances which are defining the frontiers of the new biologgy, both in fundamental aspects as well as biomedical or biotechnological implications.

Dr. Vicente Larraga directs “Diseases related to powerty. Need of new technological solutions in a global world”, centered in the discussion of new knowledge and therapeutical possibilities derived from technological advances in genomics, transcriptomics and complex data analysis, focused principally in the study of diseases such as paludism , Chagas, leishmaniasis or helmintiasis.

 On the other hand, Dres. Rafael Giraldo y Germán Rivas coordinate the II School in Integrative Molecular and Cellular Biology, which in this edition will be focused on “Synthetic Biology - Biological Systems Engineering”. The recent advances in this powerful emergent discipline will be analyzed, focused on the reconstitution of subcellular machineries and engineering of new biological systems from units and building blocks. These investigations will complete our knowledge about how a cell works and will open new horizons and applications in biotechnology, health, energy and enviroment.