The research group attached to the Faculty of Health Sciences will be linked to the event in the area of physiological changes suffered by the heart at the cellular level in its cytoskeleton and its alterations in heart failure.

The GIS Health Research Group of the University of Cauca will participate in the event called "Technical Advances in Stem Cell & Developmental Biology", which will take place from 14 to 16 May 2020 at the Guangzhou Science City technology center in China. The group led by the teacher María Virginia Pinzón Fernández and integrated by the graduate Medical and Surgeon, Luisa Fernanda Zuñiga Cerón and the student of XIII semester of Medicine, Jhan Sebastián Saavedra Torres, was included as a panel of scientific opinion in the event, in the area of ​​the physiological changes that the heart undergoes at the cellular level in its cytoskeleton and its alterations in heart failure “Scientific Opinion of the Panel on The physiological role of cardiac cytoskeleton and its alterations in heart failure”.

“It is important for us as members of the University of Cauca, to receive these invitations and endorsements of high standard, because they allow us to learn and update our ideas and paths in science, the clearest reason is in the fact of not stop growing and make analytical and purposeful scientific thoughts to the new and old challenges that are based on cell biology to help clarify routes that allow creating tools for diseases, ”said graduate Luisa Fernanda Zuñiga Cerón.

 For his part, the student Jhan Sebastián Saavedra Torres said he dreamed of something, then work it out and still realize that he does not have clear and valid results to publish a discovery of great impact, but continue in the search for answers on how to solve problems in the heart. "He taught us all that in just 5 years of effort and dedication in the same subject, it gives us the assurance that we are on the right track so that NASA and the Nature conferences will open space for us."

The event raises among its objectives to bring together experts from various fields to discuss recent technological advances that are opening new paths in stem cells and development research.

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 Jhan Sebastian Saavedra Torres

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