20031003University of Navarra specialists promote drug innovation in Bolivia

Dr. Antonio Monge coordinated in La Paz (Bolivia) the II Iberoamerican conference on research, development and innovation of drugs and related compounds. This specialist is professor of the School of Pharmacy and director of the research center in Applied Pharmacobiology (CIFA) of the University of Navarra.

Together with Bolivian professionals, researchers from Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Chile, France, United Kingdom and Spain shared two courses: one on preclinical research in the finding of drugs with antiparasitic activity and the other focused on the biological research of antiparasitic drugs.

The aim was to work on very frequent diseases in the region, such as malaria, chagas, toxoplasmosis, among others, and to strengthen the relationship between basic researchers of natural or synthetic products and evaluators of biological activities.

partnership with Ibero-America

Dr. Monge has been collaborating for years with the network Iberoamericana para la research, design y development de Medicamentos. Also, the School of Pharmacy of Pamplona has worked in the study of products used in traditional Andean medicine.

On the Spanish side,Juan Antonio Hueso, from business Glaxo; Carmen Ochoa, from high school de Chemistry Médica del committee Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; and four researchers from the University of Navarra: José Luis del Pozo (department de Parasitología de la Clínica Universitaria), Belén Zarranz, Ignacio Aldana and Antonio Monge (Unit of research and development de Medicamentos del CIFA) participated in the meeting .