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The Master's Degree European University in Food, Nutrition and Metabolism (EMENU) held on September 11, 2010, the culmination of the program. graduation ceremony the culmination of the program. Due to the health crisis, of the 13 students that make up the XV promotion, only three students attended in person, while the rest were connected telematically.

After the welcoming remarks by the director of Master's Degree, Mª Ángeles Zulet, the closing lecture entitled "Fighting diabetes: present and future", was held at position by Sonia García Calzón, pharmacist and dietician-nutritionist, and doctor in Nutrition from the University.

During his intervention, García Calzón reviewed the basic issues of diabetes to raise the question of how to prevent the complications associated with diabetes subject 2 and, thus, reduce patient morbidity and mortality. "We find that approximately half of the patients are not diagnosed and treated, with an increase in diabetes in the child and adolescent population and doubt about the adherence of all patients to the same treatment."

Thus, García Calzón concluded that the future of the treatment of the disease lies in a personalized approach that allows patients to be segmented into different diabetes subgroups and according to certain biomarkers. In this way, and with financial aid of 'big data' and bioinformatics, it will be possible to offer pharmacology and nutrition adapted and effective for each patient.

The most emotional moment of the ceremony was the students who attended their graduation from different parts of the world. They took the opportunity to say goodbye to academic staff and their classmates, while thanking the attention received during the course and, in a special way, during the confinement. "From the University of Navarra I not only take with me concepts such as nutrition or research, but I also take with me the most important concept of family, love and never feeling alone," said the delegate, Sol Gómez Loarte.

For her part, Adela López de Cerain, dean of the School of Pharmacy and Nutrition, thanked the students for all the effort made during the last few weeks to prepare their final papers for Master's Degree and defend them before an examining board, both in classroom and online mode. "We have seen that the difficulties of these months have been an opportunity for growth staff and professional. And if in the time that the Master's Degree lasts, under normal conditions, much progress is made, this year, with the difficulties that we all know and to which we have had to adapt quickly, we have seen that you have squeezed much more out of it."