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The 6th International Seminar on Biomedical Sciences and Technologies - PRIS is successfully held

Santa María Tonantzintla, Puebla, October 20, 2023.- 150 students, academics and researchers from Mexico and Costa Rica participate in the 6th International Seminar on Biomedical Sciences and Technologies - PRIS, which is held at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Conahcyt center, during this week.

The Seminar seeks to promote the advances in Biomedical Sciences and Technologies and 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.
The Seminar began on October 16 and concludes today. The program is made up of keynote lectures and tutorials. Among the speakers, doctors Leopoldo Altamirano Robles and Eduardo Morales Manzanares, from the INAOE, stand out, as well as Doctors Francisco Siles Canales, Rodrigo Chacón Quesada and Federico Alberto Ruiz Ugalde, from the University of Costa Rica, and Doctor Everardo Castro, from Novavisión, among others.
The conferences and tutorials of the Seminar have revolved around rapid prototyping of intelligent systems for wheelchair control, biomedical sensors and bioelectronics, image and signal processing, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, Biomedical Engineering in clinical neurophysiology, Phantoms and phototherapy, mechanobiology cellular and tissue.

It should be noted that the activities associated with the Seminar began on Monday, October 17, with the student challenge aimed at young people in high school and bachelor's degrees. This competition allowed participants 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 diseases, rehabilitation and/or reintegration of people through brain-computer interfaces, among others.

Participants had two days to develop a prototype of a chair that moved with signals from the brain. First place in the contest went to the HealthTech Wizards team, from the University of the Americas Puebla, made up of Carolina Martínez Valencia, Carlos Juárez Luna and Gadiel Toto Huerta. Second place went to Cardenal Girls, from the Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Ixtapaluca, composed of Nathalia Galicia Hernandez Topanga, Montserrat Sánchez Paredes, María del Carmen Martínez Gómez and Víctor Alfredo Gonzalez Morales. Finally, the third prize went to NeuroCoders, from the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, made up of Michelle Cabrera Herrera, Raúl Badillo Lora and Carieli Landeros Centeno.
For more information, visit https://ccc.inaoep.mx/~seminario-biomedicas/