Source: Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health website
Controlling a machine with the power of the mind or sharing messages just through thought. What seems, at first glance, like scenes from a science fiction film were some of the points addressed at the Magna Conference “Brain-Machine Interfaces” by Professor Dr. Edgard Morya, of Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), which marked the opening of the 1st Bahia Congress of Biotechnology and Innovation in Health (CONBIS), on the morning of March 10th.
The congress took place until March 12th, at the Cabula Academic Unit, in Salvador, and was attended by undergraduate and graduate students, professors and researchers interested in biotechnology. The event is an initiative of the former coordinator of Research and Innovation at Bahiana, Prof. Diego Menezes, through the Brazilian Society of Biotechnology (SBBiotec) It's from National Forum of Innovation and Technology Transfer Managers (Fortec), entities of which he is a member.
OI CONBIS had the support of Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health and the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (Secti), through the Bahia State Research Support Foundation (Fapesb).
Present at the opening ceremony were the director of Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani, Secti's Innovation Superintendent, Dr. Thomas de Araujo Buck, Fortec's executive director, Dr. Cristina Quintella, the vice-president of SBBiotec, Dr. Paulo Cavalcanti Gomes Ferreira and the professor at Bahiana and executive coordinator of the Northeast Biotechnology Network and researcher at Fiocruz, Prof. Dr. Mitermayer Galvao dos Reis.
“It is with great joy that Bahiana hosts this congress. We are very honored to hold this event in a collaborative environment. With the 1st Conbis, a seed was planted that will germinate and grow, because it is very important for Brazil that we transform knowledge into a product for society,” said Dr. Maria Luisa.
During the three days of the event, participants will be able to come into contact with important Brazilian researchers, such as Dr. Manuel Barral, who received the UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea Life Sciences Research Award on October 12, 2015, for his research on leishmaniasis and malaria. The program features speakers from research institutions in Bahia and other states.
According to Prof. Dr. Diego Menezes The event is being chaired by representatives of 16 organizations from 7 states. To meet the needs of this audience, the group of speakers was carefully chosen. “Love was the guiding principle behind the selection of these speakers. Love for the students, for the audience and for what we do. Since we work in the areas of biotechnology and innovation, we were careful to select speakers who, in addition to being able to share this cutting-edge knowledge that is being generated with the world, could also promote the exchange of this knowledge,” he explains.
Original link to the article with photos of the event HERE.
