The Esteve Foundation, together with the Catalan Society of Pharmacology, inaugurated the latter鈥檚 Academic Year 1999-2000 with the lecture New intracellular regulating and signaling mechanisms, imparted by Prof. Federico Mayor, Jr., from the Department of Molecular Biology and the Severo Ochoa Center of Molecular Biology (CSIC-UAM) of Madrid. The lecture was held at the Academy…
1999
The sixth Esteve Foundation Research Prize to the best work on pharmacological research was awarded this year to Juan Carlos Lacal and his collaborators for the study聽Choline Kinase inhibitors as a novel approach for antiproliferative drug design, published in Oncogene in 1997. The contribution of these scientists from the Biomedical Research Institute of the CSIC…
1999
The round table “Modelos experimentales de patolog铆a infecciosa” (Experimental models in infectious diseases) was held in Barcelona (May 12, 1999). Dr. Jos茅 Mar铆a Mir贸 and Dr. Jos茅 Mar铆a Gatell (Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Cl铆nico Universitario Barcelona) chaired this meeting. All presentations and discussions were published in the monograph number 26 (“Monograf铆as Dr. Antonio Esteve”, only…
1999
The round table Educaci贸n sanitaria: informaci贸n al paciente sobre medicamentos (Health education: patient information on drugs) was held in Barcelona (November 17, 1999). Carlos Codina, from the Pharmacy Service at the Hospital Cl铆nico y Provincial de Barcelona, chaired the round table in which several health professionals presented their experience around patient-communication and drug-information. All presentations…
1999
The Esteve Foundation and the Catalan Society of Pharmacology held the lecture Experimental models in pharmacosexology, imparted by Prof. Manuel Mas, from the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna of Tenerife, at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands on November 4, 1998.
1998
The eighth international symposium organized by the Esteve Foundation, Variability in human drug response, was held on October 7-10, 1998 in Sitges. Aspects related to the variability in drug response were discussed. As shown in this symposium, the fact that each patient is different when given one same treatment entails both an obstacle and a…
1998
Several Spanish researchers from very close fields like biochemistry, pharmacology and physiology were invited to participate in this round table (Signal transduction as pharmacological target). Chaired by Drs. J.M. Baeyens (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Universidad de Granada) and A. Zorzano (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Barcelona) this workshop was held in…
1998
This workshop was held in Sitges (Barcelona, Spain) on May 11-12, 1998. It was organized by both, the Esteve Foundation and the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Robert H. Fletcher and Suzanne W. Fletcher from Boston (Co-Editors of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and Ex-Editors de Annals of Internal Medicine) chaired this meeting which was…
1998
The lecture New therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases: neurotrophic factors and activated intracellular pathways was held at the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands on October 17, 1997 and imparted by Dr. Joan Comella, from the Molecular Neurobiology Group of the Department of Basic Sciences of the University of Lleida.
1997
