On 11 July took place in the Assembly Hall of the Eduard Boscà library, of the Burjassot Campus, the traditional scientific workshop that the institute has been organising annually, to which 100 people assisted.

After a brief introduction by the director Dr. Joan Ferré Manzanero in which he summed up the most relevant achievements done by members of the institute during the past course, the workshop continued with three scientific conferences done by the Drs. Celia P. Martínez Jiménez and Leopoldo Palma, both researchers of BIOTECMED, and the Dr. Antoni Beltrán, from the Centre de Regulació Genòmica (Barcelona).

After a coffee break, the Drs. Pilar Domingo-Calap, from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) and Beatriz Llamusi, from Arthex Biotech S.L, presented the most relevant aspects of their two spin-offs generated within the Universitat de València.

The last conference was done by the director of BIOTECMED, Joan Ferré, in which he went through all his scientific trajectory, from the difficult decision that he had to take in his adolescence on what studies to choose, to this day, one month and a half apart from his retirement and next as Professor Emeritus. When he finished, the Secretary of BIOTECMED, Dr. José Enrique Pérez Ortín, gave him, in the name of all the attendants, a commemorative plaque recognising his management as founding member of the ERI and later as director of the Institute. The workshop ended with a fraternisation lunch in the Café of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

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