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We have a new graduate!

Patrick Padmore obtained his B.Sc. diploma under Dr. Lorena Coronado´s tutorship. Patrick studied a Major in Biotechnology from Universidad Latina de Panamá and has since been trained by Doriana Dorta on the use and management of the Optical Tweezers, helping out in Lorena´s project and other users of the equipment.

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Dr. Correa has been selected for the prestigious Arturo Falaschi ICGEB Postdoctoral Fellowship


Dr. Ricardo Correa was selected for the prestigious Arturo Falaschi ICGEB Post-doc Fellowship awarded by the ICGEB Cardiovascular Biology Group at ICGEB Trieste (Italy) with Dr. Serena Zacchigna for the year 2020. He stayed a year and a half learning cutting edge techniques on organoid printing, adenovirus as targeted therapeutic delivery tool, CRISPR CAS and much more. Two of his publications with the ICGEB are depicted below.
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New Senior Member of IEEE

https://twitter.com/indicasat/status/1162382289889873921?s=20

With great pleasure we announce that Dr Carmenza Spadafora has been upgraded to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in its Chapter of Medicine & Biology (EMB). Only 10% of the more than 400,000 members of IEEE in 160 countries have achieved this level. Being not an engineer, this is counted as a great honor.

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The Bioprospection Group of INDICASAT AIP headed for more funding

The GEF 7 program for Panama has accepted the proposal presented by the Group of Drug Discovery and Bioprospection of INDICASAT with University of Panama collaboration. The project will make use of the benefits that native microbes could have related to their agricultural and medical potentials. INDICASAT AIP has almost 20 years of experience running a very succesful academic and conservation program with Funding from NIH, USDA, NSF, GEF, SENACYT and more recently, the Ministry of Environment through their Fund for Wildlife, Biodiversity and Water.

The launching of the project, which should be ready for implementation around April or May 2020, gathered stakeholders from INDICASAT AIP, University of Panama, the United Nations Development Program, Ministry of Finance of Panama, Ministry of Environment of Panama and the Director of the National Park “La Amistad”, spreading between Panama and Costa Rica, where some of the activity related to biological control will take place. The program will strengthen the concept of sustainability of biodiversity through the development of useful products to society out of scientific discovery.