Call for research papers U25 Fest
Would you like to share your research? As part of U25 Fest: Ideas for community growth, there will be opportunities to present oral papers and posters, organized by theme and faculty. 📍 Main Campus – Faculty of Sciences 📅 Wednesday, November 5 🎯 Thematic areas: – Quality education – Healthy living – Coexistence and democracy […]
UIS Cardiovascular Research Seedbed wins three departmental research awards from RedColSI 2025
The Cardiovascular Research Seedbed, affiliated with the UIS Electrocardiography Research Group, led by Professor Oscar Leonel Rueda-Ochoa, has been awarded three departmental research prizes from RedColSI 2025 (Colombian Network of Research Seedbeds). The group will represent the UIS Faculty of Health at the RedColSI National Meeting to be held in October in Bogotá. This event […]
Doctoral student in Biomedical Sciences completed an international internship
Diana Paola Peña Burgos, a doctoral candidate in the Biomedical Sciences program in the Department of Basic Sciences at the School of Medicine and affiliated with the Center for Research in Tropical Diseases (CINTROP), completed a doctoral research internship at the Maimónides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC) in the city of Córdoba, Spain, between June […]
Thesis by student specializing in ophthalmology was rated as “meritorious thesis.”
The thesis “Factors associated with the endothelial count of corneal tissue from donors at the Multitissue Bank and Advanced Therapies Center of the FOSCAL International Clinic,” written by Laura Sofía Torres Parada, a student in the Ophthalmology Specialization program at the UIS, supervised by Professor Alejandro Tello Hernández and co-supervised by Professor Néstor Iván Carreño […]
UIS Pediatrics Resident Receives International Recognition in Guatemala
María Camila Velandia, a UIS physician and postgraduate resident in pediatrics, participated in and won first place in the oral presentation competition at the 66th National Pediatrics Congress in Guatemala. The research project, entitled “Clinical, sociodemographic, and nutritional characterization of overweight or obese children between the ages of 2 and 12 treated at the Santander […]
UIS professor participates in important international epidemiology conference
Laura Andrea Rodríguez Villamizar, director of the Department of Public Health at the School of Medicine and member of the GUINDESS research group, participated as a speaker at the 43rd SEE (Spanish Society of Epidemiology) Meeting and 20th APE (Portuguese Association of Epidemiology) Congress, held from September 2 to 5 in Las Palmas de Gran […]
UIS graduate publishes book on basic money management concepts
Carlos Enrique Ramírez, Physician and Plastic Surgeon from the Industrial University of Santander. MSc in Regenerative Medicine and Nanotechnology from UCL (United Kingdom). Subspecialist in Facial Plastic Surgery from DAFPRS – Laclinic (Switzerland) and Mohs Surgeon from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), he recently published the book “What They Didn’t Teach Me.” “This work […]
UIS graduate establishes possible link between prenatal paracetamol use and increased risk of autism and ADHD
Diagnoses of autism and ADHD have increased worldwide in recent years; these findings may affect future public health policies as well as clinical guidelines for pregnant women. Diddier Giovanny Prada Ortega, a 2001 graduate of UIS with a doctorate in biomedical sciences from UNAM and postdoctoral studies at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public […]
Learn more about the effects of hallucinogen use
Hallucinogen use produces psychological, physical, neurological, social, and psychiatric effects that vary depending on the substance, dose, context, and individual vulnerability. Some of these effects are immediate, others are medium- and long-term. Visual and sensory distortions, perceptual alterations, confused thoughts, euphoria, anxiety, panic, laughter, increased heart rate, pupil dilation, sweating, tremors, nausea, anxiety disorder, psychosis, […]
The Cardiovascular Symposium was a great success
The symposium was recently held in the main auditorium of the Scientific Complex for Health and Life Sciences Research and was attended by approximately 250 people. It was led by professors Boris Eduardo Vesga Angarita and Sergio Andrés Higuera Leal. The topics covered from a primary care perspective were, in the first section: cardiovascular risk […]