Scientists, doctors, politicians and diplomats met at the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. to discuss the present and future of collaboration in biomedical and biotechnological research between Cuba and the United States.
The director of the Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, Dr. Mitchel Valdés, the professor of Biophysical Physiology and Psychiatry, Mark Rasenick and the president of Discovery Therapeutics Caribe (DTC), Lee Weingart, presented the opportunities for collaboration that exist between both countries in these sectors.
For her part, Jan Schakowsky, Democratic Congresswoman from Illinois, emphasized that the effort to promote collaboration in this field between scientific and medical institutions would generate health and quality of life benefits for the U.S. population.
During the meeting, Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, expressed the importance of advancing opportunities that allow the development of scientific research between the two countries.
Members of different U.S. universities, present at the meeting, pointed out the obstacles they face in this area for exchange, due to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba.