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Dr. Bernat Soria Escoms, Extraordinary Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the Universidad Pablo Olavide (Seville) and Director of the Department of Cell Therapy and Regeneration of the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) in Seville, 'Can we beat diabetes?
Where we are and what we can expect '.
The event was organized by SODICAR-Diabetes Society of Cartagena and Comarca, and took place in the auditorium of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).
At the end of the conference, the new Delegation was presented in Cartagena de DiabetesCER0, a movement of parents of children with diabetes and adults struggling for research to cure diabetes.
The event was attended by the Mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the delegate of Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín del Amor, Regional Assembly Vice-President María López, Regional Representative Elena Ruiz and other members of the Corporation Municipal as Ana Rama.
Both activities were presented last Tuesday to the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, by the president and the manager of the association, María Dolores García Ros and María José Martínez Victoria, whom he received at the Consistorial Palace.
"Diabetes is a disease that increasingly affects more people and it is important to enhance the scientific and technological developments that make it easier for people who suffer from it and who seek a definitive cure." The conference that Bernat Soria will give us will allow us to go deeper In this matter, "explained the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón.
The first mayor expressed his support for Sodicar, "which plays a fundamental role".
Bernat Soria has a degree in Medicine from the University of Valencia in 1974 and a PhD in February 2000. He pioneered the production of insulin-producing pancreatic cells from mouse stem cells.
In July 2001, he was able to convert human embryonic stem cells into insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells in 1978. In 1980 he obtained postdoctoral studies at the Max Plank Innstitut fur Biophysikalische Chemie in Gottingen, Germany.
From 1980 to 1982 he was Project Manager in the Department of Biophysics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.
From 1991 to 1994 he was Coordinator of the National Evaluation and Forecast Agency (ANEP).
His work has been recognized with the Gold Medal and Prize of the Royal National Academy of Medicine (1989), the Diploma of the Society of Latin American Biophysicists (1997), the National Prize for Basic Research of the Spanish Society of Diabetes (1998) , The Fundación Foundation Award for the best medical research project in 1998 and the Health Foundation Award 2000. In February 2004, he was awarded the Andalusian Gold Medal;
And received in Oviedo the prize of the General Meeting of the Principality of Asturias and the International Society of Bioethics.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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