The XVIII Colombian Congress and XII International Congress of Human Genetics, organized by the Colombian Association of Human Genetics (ACGH), was held in Cartagena from June 11 to 14.
This event brought together more than 543 researchers in the area of genetics working in the country and counted with the participation of 23 international speakers, 55 national speakers and 190 speakers of which 28 presented their research in oral and 162 in posters.
The UIS was represented by the professors of the research group in Human Genetics (GENEHUIS) Clara Inés Vargas, Gustavo Contreras, Adriana Castillo and Adriana Lucía Pico, a PhD student in Biomedical Sciences, a Master’s student in Basic Biomedical Sciences and 11 UIS undergraduate students in Medicine who are part of the UIS Research in Human Genetics (SIGENH).
UIS professors and students participated with a keynote lecture and eight poster presentations. Two of which presented results of research being developed and six presented relevant clinical cases in the different symposia of the event.
Additionally, in this version of the congress was held as a preamble to the event, the first symposium of graduate students in Human Genetics that had among its most relevant activities the MasterGen contest, an activity in which several students members of the SIGENH seedbed participated. There, the last year student of Medicine, Paula Andrea Espíndola, was part of the team that won third place in this competition.
We congratulate the UIS students who competed with students from all the postgraduate programs in genetics in the country and advanced to the final of the event.
