UIS graduate, is the president of the Hispanic Psychiatrists Group of the APA from 2024-2026
Ruby Castilla Puentes, UIS Physician. Specialist in Psychiatry. She is part of a team of trainers of Psychiatrists in the United States. With more than 10 years of experience in academia, and for more than 1 year, linked to the APA (American Psychiatric Association), she was recently chosen to be a mentor for young people […]
‘We eat, drink and breathe microplastics’, says microbiologist and bioanalyst UIS
Due to the poor disposal we have in the world we are generating large amounts of waste. More than 800 million tons of plastics enter the marine environment every year. Plastic particles have different levels of toxicity, these are present in many of the elements that we use every day, icopor, clothes made of polyester, […]
Students of the School of Nursing participated in the International Congress
Camilo Andrés Parra Portilla, student of the School of Nursing, and member of the research seedbed GRINFER, participated in the VII International Congress of Nursing and Health: Challenges faced by health professionals and VI Meeting of Research Seedbeds – Santa Marta, organized by the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia from October 2 to 4. Camilo Andrés […]
Professor of the School of Nursing participated in the Pan-American Colloquium on Nursing Research 2024
Diana Carolina Tiga Loza, professor at the School of Nursing and member of the GRINFER research group, presented a poster at the XVIII Pan-American Colloquium on Nursing Research 2024, held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The poster presented was entitled “Development of an application to support adherence to tuberculosis treatment”. This work presented […]
Department of Basic Sciences of the School of Medicine participated in an International Colloquium
Professor Carlos Arturo Conde Cotes, professor attached to the Department of Basic Sciences, Physiology Section, and member of the Neurosciences and Behavior group UIS – UPB; Angie Sidney Naranjo Garcia, professor of the Department of Basic Sciences, Physiology Section, II year PhD student in Biomedical Sciences UIS, member of the group of Neurosciences and Behavior […]
The Scientific Research Ethics Committee held its second meeting at the UIS.
This Friday, the II Meeting of the Committee on Ethics in Scientific Research was held in which topics such as integrity in research, informed consent and assent, risk management, ethics in open science, among others, were addressed. There were lectures and discussions designed to provide researchers, professors and students with practical tools that allow them […]
¡Qdenga®, the vaccine against dengue is now available!
There are many stories about dengue fever. Someone has lost a family member, a friend, a colleague or an acquaintance. This disease, caused by the Aedes aegypti vector, which for many years has claimed the lives of thousands of people, now has a solution. It has taken many years of work to find an answer. […]
Electrocardiography Research Group participated in the III Cochrane Symposium Colombia, 2024
The Electrocardiography Research Group and its Cardiovascular Research Semillero UIS, participated with six completed research papers in the “III Cochrane Colombia Symposium ‘Innovation in Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Transfer’, held on October 24 and 25, 2024, at the facilities of the Hospital San José FUCS, Bogotá, Colombia. The papers presented were: *Thoracic Aortic Diameter and […]
Students of the Microbiology and Bioanalysis program expressed their creativity in the XII Bactearte contest
Students of the fourth, sixth and tenth semester of Microbiology and Bioanalysis participated in the XII Bactearte contest, organized by the University of Santander, UDES. The live brushes and agar culture categories were chosen by the students to express art through microorganisms and bacteria in culture. These expressions exhibited the students’ passion for bacteriology by […]
Nursing student took first place in oral modality in national event
César Fernando Rodríguez Silva, student of the nursing program, participated as a speaker in the Precolloquium XXIV Meeting of Young Researchers Unisanitas. VIII Encuentro de Semilleros de Investigación UDCA: Fortaleciendo redes de conocimiento para el cuidado de la salud, organized by the Asociación Colombiana de Facultades y Escuelas de Enfermería (ACOFAEN), Unisanitas and Universidad de […]