The School of Pharmacy celebrates 25 years of the Master's Degree in research and development+i of Medicines
More than 150 alumni participated this Saturday in the anniversary commemorative events such as the lecture "Come coconuts" and the "MIDI Connect".
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The School of Pharmacy celebrated this Saturday the 25th anniversary of the Master's Degree in research, development and Medication Innovation (MIDI). More than 150 alumni, representing all the promotions of postgraduate program, participated in the commemorative events organized.
The workshop began with the video"Dreamers", an original audiovisual "surprise" that presented the testimony of several alumni of MIDI. Next, the director of Master's Degree Silvia Pérez Silanes spoke, who, in addition to welcoming the audience, reviewed the history of postgraduate program and thanked Professor Antonio Monge, "a visionary", for his commitment to this training "still a pioneer in Spain". "The management team has changed, but the essence is maintained thanks to those who devised and configured this Master's Degree so necessary in our country".
His words gave way to the lecture "Come coconuts" by Xavier Oliver, expert in advertising and professor at IESE. Through a sample of commercials, he encouraged attendees to always be"creative, consistent, iconic, sensitive, generous, useful and, above all, dreamers and able to excite" in their work .
Dean Adela López de Cerain, closed the morning of conferences with a speech in which she recalled that "the goal of MIDI is to train the best in all the processes related to the arduous task of the development of the medicine". "You are the best ambassadors of this purpose", she concluded.
After a first contact in the café, the alumni participated in the "MIDI Conecta": a meeting to foster relationships between professionals through the speed networking system. More than 23 companies, including Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Geiser Pharma, SGI or Laboratorios Rovi, were represented by the MIDI alumni .
The students of the last four graduating classes also met with the younger ones to exchange their first experiences in the working world and to share their experience of having taken the MIDI and their personal and professional discoveries after completing it.
At 2:00 p.m., lunch was served in the Hall of the Science Library Building, followed at 4:00 p.m. by a guided tour of the University and the University of Navarra Museum, visit .