Madrid Students Learn Importance of Clinical Trials and Vaccines in Science Program

MADRID, 15 (SERVIMEDIA)

More than 130 Baccalaureate students from the ‘El Espinillo’ and ‘Diego de Velázquez’ secondary education institutes and the Sagrado Corazón de Rosales School of the Community of Madrid, participated in a new edition of the program ‘Bringing science closer to schools in Madrid’, organized by the Jiménez Díaz Foundation and Farmaindustria, where they learned the value of clinical trials and vaccines.

As reported by Farmaindustria this Friday, the importance of clinical research and vaccine development was the focus of this new program. The attending students were able to learn what the clinical research of a medicine consists of, from the scientific work until the treatment reaches the patient.

The director of Clinical and Translational Research at Farmaindustria, Amelia Martín Uranga, was in charge of explaining the process, while the researcher Lucía Llanos, from the Health Research Institute of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, analyzed the importance of ethics in clinical trials .

“It is a long, complex and expensive process, which would not be possible without the collaboration of all the agents involved in it: health administrations, regulatory agencies, researchers and health professionals, research ethics committees, patients and pharmaceutical companies,” he explained. Martin Uranga.

VACCINES

This model of public-private collaboration is responsible, he added, for the vaccine against Covid-19 being found in record time and necessary to compete in a scenario where the biomedical R&D model is increasingly global. collaborative and international.

The representative of Farmaindustria also conveyed to the students, who will soon decide their professional future, the opportunity that it represents to develop a research career in the pharmaceutical sector.

In fact, Martín Uranga recalled that “employment in the pharmaceutical industry is stable, quality and equal, another attraction for developing in this sector, which can be reached in multiple ways and not only through careers or bio-health training.” .

For her part, the doctor specializing in Infectious Diseases, Irene Carrillo, conveyed the importance of vaccines and immunization for the progress of Humanity: “Vaccines are one of the instruments that have saved the most lives in History and are the that have made it possible for us to be here today, after the terrible covid-19 pandemic.”

(SERVIMEDIA)15-DEC-2023 12:30 (GMT +1)ABG/gja

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