Víctor Garrigós and Belén Llobregat.

The educational program to promote scientific vocations AmgenTransferCiència arrives this Thursday, March 30 and Friday, March 31 at IES l’Eliana and IES Number 26 Misericordia in València. This is a program with master classes and experimentation workshops in biotechnology and genetics taught by young researchers.

Specifically, Victor Garrigós, from the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I²Sysbio), a mixed center of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and in Valencia Belén Llobregat, from the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA), located in the UV Science Park. Both events will cover the detection of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by PCR.

These informative actions are offered in five Valencian institutes between February and May of this year. The last Valencian center to participate will be the IES Distrito Marítimo, which on May 18 will host the I²Sysbio researcher Cecilia Picazo, who will give a practice on the extraction and amplification of DNA from biological remains with a game to identify the perpetrator of an alleged crime.

AmgenTransferCiència began as a pilot program in the 2019-2020 academic year. Currently, 35 schools in the Valencian Community, Madrid, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Galicia are participating, with more than 875 students. 1986, disseminates research and innovation among society to promote scientific culture, scientific-technical vocations among young people, and entrepreneurship and public-private collaboration in R&D. dedicated to the development and production of biological medicines for patients with serious illnesses or unmet medical needs. With the aim of improving the quality of life of patients, it focuses its efforts on cardiology, nephrology, bone health and oncohematology. Its treatments have benefited more than 20 million patients worldwide and hundreds of thousands of people in Spain, where it has been present since 1990. style="line-height:107%">

Activity in Teulada and Alaquàs

This edition of the project began in the Valencian territory on February 8 at the IES Teulada with Luis Orduña (I²Sysbio); and on February 14 at the IES Faustí Barberà in Alaquàs with Borja Sáez, from the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (IBV-CSIC), who carried out a practice on pGLO bacterial transformation. text-align:justify">

More information: https://transferciencia.fundaciorecerca.cat/index.asp