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II Neuroscientists Women Today: Sowing Referents
The General Assembly of the United Nations approved in December 2015 a Resolu- tion proclaiming on February 11 of each year the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the purpose, according to the text, to promote through edu- cation and public awareness activities the full and equal participation of women and girls in education, recruitment, employment and decision-making processes in science. That is why the CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED, together with the Apadri- na la Ciencia association, decided to organize the II Conference “Neuroscientists Today: sowing references”. Ma Ángeles Pérez, manager of the CIEN Foundation, presented the conference, during which the three organizing institutions proposed various activities to disseminate science and research in neurodegenerative dis- eases: the conferences “Altamira has a woman’s name and also a mathemati- cal one”, by Prof. Francisco González Redondo from the UCM and “Animal Models of Alzheimer’s disease” by Dr. Isabel Lastres-Becker, from CIBERNED. To bring the people who attended the research work closer together, a series of workshops were held by Drs. Rosario Fernández and Inés Antón, from Apadrina la Ciencia, Dr. Miguel Medina, CIBERNED Deputy Scientific Director, and Eva Alfayate, radiodiag- nosis technician at the CIEN Foundation Neuroimaging department.
To close the day, the attendees, mostly students, had the opportunity to partic- ipate in the session “Ask a scientist”, in which several researchers from the CIEN Foundation, CIBERNED and Apadrina la Ciencia, answered to the questions raised, with the aim of eliminating the still prevalent stereotypes and showing real refer- ences to other scientists, present and future.
The CIEN Foundation in the Brain Spanish Council
The Spanish Brain Council (CEC, for its acronym in Spanish), was founded in 2009 as a non-governmental organization that brings together scientific soci- eties, patient associations and industry, with the main objective of promoting
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