Bahiana hosts the XNUMXst Bahia Congress on Biotechnology and Innovation in Health - CONBIS

Control a machine with the power of the mind or share messages through thought alone. What appears, at first glance, to be scenes from a science fiction movie were some of the points addressed at the Magna Conference "Brain-Machine Interfaces" by Prof. Edgard Morya, from the Alberto Santos Dumont Teaching and Research Institute, which marked the opening of the 10st Bahia Congress on Biotechnology and Innovation in Health, on the morning of March XNUMXth.

The congress takes place until March 12, at the Cabula Academic Unit, and has the participation of undergraduate and graduate students, professors and researchers interested in biotechnology. The event is an initiative of the former coordinator of Research and Innovation at Bahiana, Prof. Diego Menezes, through the Brazilian Society of Biotechnology (SBBiotec) and the National Forum of Innovation and Technology Transfer Managers (Fortec), entities of which he is a member.

OI CONBIS had the support of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública and the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (Secti), through the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Bahia (Fapesb).

The director of the Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani, the Superintendent of Innovation at Secti, Dr. Thomas de Araújo Buck, the executive director of Fortec, Dr. Cristina Quintella, the vice president of SBBiotec, Dr. Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira and the teacher of Bahiana and executive coordinator of the Northeast Biotechnology Network and researcher at FioCruz, Prof. Dr. Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis.

"It is with great joy that the Bahiana receives this congress. We are very honored to host this event in a collaborative environment. With the I Conbis, a seed of something that will germinate and grow was planted, as it is very important for Brazil to transform knowledge into a product for society", declared Dr. Maria Luisa.

During the three-day event, participants will be able to be in contact with important Brazilian researchers, such as Dr. Manoel Barral, who received, on October 12, 2015, the Unesco-Equatorial Guinea Prize for Research in Life Sciences for his research on leishmaniasis and malaria. The program brings speakers from research entities in Bahia and other states.

According to the teacher. Dr. Diego Menezes, who presides over the event, is attended by representatives of 16 entities from 7 states. To meet the needs of this audience, the group of speakers was carefully thought out. "Love, was the guide for the choices made by these speakers. Love for the students, the public and what we do. As we are active in the areas of biotechnology and innovation, we were careful to select speakers who, in addition to sharing this cutting-edge knowledge, that are being generated for the world, could also promote the exchange of this knowledge", he explains.

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