Other developments
Guillen also said progress in other recombinant vaccine against dengue is currently experiencing in monkeys and in his opinion, would be "one of its kind in that market compared to major pharmaceutical companies in the world."
This antidote is under trial but has already achieved that "the virus does not multiply," he said after reporting that the Cubans working in collaboration with institutions in other countries, including France's Pasteur Institute.
At the meeting in Havana, Cubans also presented Nasvac, a vaccine against hepatitis B, "exclusive product" of IGBC is administered nasally and is in final phase (three) of human clinical trials, both in Cuba and Bangladesh.
The agenda of the forum, held every two years, including holding symposiums and treatment Cancer Biology and Disease Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics in drug design.
Biotech products of the island are registered in about 40 countries and exported to 35.
This type of developments in biotechnology is also characterized by a capacity for technology transfer sui generis, and is "the second branch of exportation" of the economy in the Caribbean nation after nickel, according to Dr. Guillen.
Mexico's share
At the conference, which will conclude on Thursday March 8, also involved a delegation of specialists from Mexico as well as representations of France, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, United Kingdom, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia.
Among the guests participating in the Mexican event include Emilio Córdova, the National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Johanna Berlandez, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, Rafael Sanchez, founder of the Institute of Biotechnology and Applied Ecology, and Joseph Luis Stephano, a researcher at the Autonomous University of Baja California.
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