The Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) received a visit this morning by the Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, to talk with the doctoral students of this institute of the Universitat de València and the CSIC, in the Scientific Park of the academic institution. and the function of ribosomes, has held an informal meeting with the youngest sector of Y2SysBio researchers – the doctoral students.

These, throughout the two hours that the meeting lasted, have shared impressions with the Israeli scientist on very diverse topics, from questions related to the origin of life to more specific issues, such as the problem of resistance to antibiotics and the insensitivity of pharmaceutical companies, one of Yonath's most persevering demands. "With the knowledge we currently have, it no longer makes sense to continue with old antibiotics; we must investigate and test new formulas, but this is not a business for large companies," said the scientist, the fourth woman in history and the first from her country of origin to win the Nobel Prize. vice director of I2SysBio and host of the meeting. “And even more so because she is a woman who defends curiosity as the main driving force of science,” she adds. And this is how Yonath explained it in an interview in Métode magazine a year ago.

Ada Yonath is in Valencia for her participation in the conference 'The 2019 Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting & Exposition', which is being held these days at the Valencia Conference Center. Her interest in research developed from Integrative Systems Biology, an emerging and fundamental discipline for modern Biology, has resulted in this meeting at the I2SysBio at the request of the scientist herself. style="text-align: justify;">

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• Ada Group Link Yonath