Jun 01 2008 | La Voz del Interior
Harvard awarded an investigator from National University of Cordoba (Article in Spanish)
Diego DAstolfo, quien hizo su doctorado en Ciencias Químicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), recibirá este martes el premio instituido por la Universidad de Harvard al mejor estudiante del curso intensivo de actualización en Ciencias Biomédicas focalizado en el estudio de células madre.
DAstolfo fue elegido en el marco del programa "Stem Cell Research Training 2007" (Pabsela, según sus siglas en inglés), que el año pasado dictaron docentes de Harvard en el Instituto Leloir, en Buenos Aires.
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MAY 08 2008 | Cell Stem Cell
PABSELA: A Research Highway between Two Hemispheres
Come early May, two-dozen or so graduate students, postdocs, engineers, and physicians from across Latin America will drop what they’re doing and converge on the Fundacion Instituto Leloir in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s renowned research center, for an intensive 2 week training course in stem cell research. Guiding them will be 15 stem cell scientists from North America as well as South America. In a different country, a program of this sort would be just another educational offering. However, here in a place where biologists have experienced a frustrating half-century, PABSELA, for the Program for the Advancement of Biomedical Sciences Education in Latin America, is part of a remarkable turnaround.
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Jul 01 2007 | Harvard Medical International
PABSELA completes first stem cell research training program for Latin American investigators
The Program for the Advancement of Biomedical Sciences Education in Latin America (PABSELA) has held the inaugural edition of an intensive stem cell training course for young Latin American scientists. Twenty-three students hailing from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico were selected to participate in laboratory training and attend lectures and seminars led by top faculty drawn from Harvard Medical School and other institutions. Read more
Jun 03 2007 | Diario Clarin
A test for breast cancer (Article in Spanish)
Para Kornelia Polyak, cada mujer afectada desarrolla el cáncer de mama a su manera. Esta científica apunta a ganarle al tumor incluso antes de que aparezca: desarrolla con su equipo de la Universidad de Harvard, en los Estados Unidos, un test para identificar pacientes con alto riesgo.Read more