Outreach

Advances will be disseminated at the 6th International Seminar on Biomedical Sciences and Technologies

Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, October 12, 2023.- Disseminating the advances in Biomedical Sciences and Technologies among society is one of the objectives of the 6th International Seminar on Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, which will take place from the 18th to the 20th. next October at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), center of the National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (Conahcyt).

This Seminar also seeks to strengthen the postgraduate program in Biomedical Sciences and Technologies of the INAOE and that of the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Costa Rica, institutions that have organized it for six years.
In an interview, Dr. Anabel Sánchez Sánchez, INAOE researcher and one of the organizers of the event, reports that the program will be made up of conferences and tutorial courses taught by experts in the development, innovation, application and generation of useful systems, tools and devices. in biomedicine, both national and international, complemented with the presentation of research and development work carried out by students and graduates of both institutions. The format of the Seminar will be hybrid.
Dr. Sánchez Sánchez adds that, in addition to the Seminar activities, this year the organization of a student challenge is proposed for the first time, which will take place next Monday and Tuesday. “The student challenge is a contest aimed at students at the high school and high school levels.”
The aforementioned contest offers participants the opportunity to become familiar with computational techniques, devices for capturing electrical signals from the brain, innovative tools for the capture, processing and intelligent analysis of brain signals and their application to develop computational systems that help detect of diseases, the rehabilitation and/or reintegration of people through brain-computer interfaces, among others. Participants will have two days to devise a solution, develop a prototype and present a viable proposal to the problem raised.

Asked about the importance of this type of events, Dr. Anabel Sánchez comments: “Biomedical Sciences combine different basic sciences. Its objective is to develop applications for the health area. This seminar aims to show our Mexican student population the different lines in which they could specialize or in which they could carry out their undergraduate and graduate studies, and this can even lead to business development. This year, companies in the biomedical area are going to visit us, and this is also useful for the job opportunities of the students who visit us and for our own students, some of whom, when they graduate, are hired by companies to carry out research. We have graduates from Johnson & Johnson and from companies that are dedicated to the design of circuits with applications in biomedical sensors. The seminar is useful on the one hand for the student population and also as a dissemination of science, because it allows this knowledge to be brought not only to graduate students but also to other educational levels. Finally, some of these studies are being applied to people, which also benefits society. It is useful for everyone.”
Finally, the researcher emphasizes that registration has no cost. For more information, visit https://ccc.inaoep.mx/~seminario-biomedicas/