2020_11_25_CIE_virologos

The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has organized this Friday at 19:00 hours "The night of the researchers", a webinar that will feature the testimony of Ana Fernández-Sesma and Adolfo García-Sastre, two Spanish researchers working at Mount Sinai in New York, who will tell their professional career and comment on the most relevant topics of scientific update.

The goal of this session is to strengthen scientific vocations through the testimony of two professionals who have developed a successful scientific degree program . In addition, the webinar attendees will learn the vision of these professionals about the future of Science, the current state of the research, the possibilities of developing a scientific degree program in Spain, the trend in the world of Virology, as well as other current scientific issues, with a special emphasis on the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging diseases.

"Researchers' Night" will be held online this year and the public will be able to follow the session and participate through the Science Museum's YouTube channel. Scientists will answer questions asked through the chat on this platform.

A scientific degree program focused on Virology

Ana Fernández-Sesma was born in Cáceres and studied at the University of Salamanca. She is Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at School of Mount Sinai Medicine in New York, where she directs a group of research that studies how viruses modulate our immune system and how to develop new therapies against viral diseases such as dengue, zika, HIV, influenza and SARSCoV2. For the past several years she has been in the top 5 of NIH (National Institutes of Health) funded microbiology researchers.

Adolfo García-Sastre, a native of Burgos, received his PhD in Sciences from the University of Salamanca and is Full Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the high school Emerging Pathogens and Global Health of the School of Mount Sinai Medicine in New York. In addition, she is director of the research center on the Pathogenesis of Influenza (CRIP), for the research and Surveillance of influenza in the USA. Her research has focused on improving vaccines against influenza viruses and investigating the interactions between these agents and their hosts.