PHL Science Delegation Conducts Study Mission in France

The Philippine delegation at the Institute for Structural Biology in Grenoble, France. From left to right: Mr. Paul Ernest De Leon, PCHRD Supervising Science Research Specialist; Dr. Elizabeth Paz-Pacheco, UP Professor and Endocrinologist; Dr. Carmencita Padilla, Chancellor of UP Manila; Dr. Ma. Anita Bautista, Program Director of the DNA Sequencing Core Facility of the Philippine Genome Center; Dr. Jaime Montoya, Director of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD); Dr. Amelia Guevara, former DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development; Dr. Winfried Weissenhorn, Director of the IBS; and Ms. Annabelle Rondaud, Head of National and International Affairs of the CEA.

03 May 2017 PARIS — A high-level science delegation conducted a week-long exploratory mission in France from April 24 to 28 in search for possible research collaborations in the field of health, and visited the research facilities of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), ranked second and ninth, respectively, of Reuters and Clarivate’s “Top 25 Global Innovators – Government” in 2017.

They also visited the Infectious Disease Models and Innovative Therapies (IDMIT), the Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRCen), the French National Research Centre for Human Genomics(CNG), the French National Sequencing Centre (Genoscope), the Institute for Structural Biology (IBS), and the Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble (BIG).

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Ambassador Ma. Theresa Lazaro (seated, second from right) hosts a dinner for the Philippine delegation at the official residence in Paris.