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The Department of Culture of the Municipality of Molina de Segura has awarded this year's Recognition Setenil Cultural Outreach to Medical Research Foundation (FEM) of Molina de Segura, for his work in popularizing science and technology, particularly in the fields of medicine and biology.
The award will be presented on Tuesday, December 10th, in the Plenary Hall of the City of Molina de Segura, one of the events associated with the X Setenil Award for Best Story Book Published in Spain.
The Department of Culture established in 2009 Setenil Recognition of Cultural Outreach in order to distinguish those persons, groups or institutions that, over the years, have conducted activities to promote culture in the municipality in any facets.
In the four previous editions has fallen on the bookseller Justina Jiménez Salcedo on the entrepreneur and art gallery Juan Vicente Davalos on the physics professor and organizer of the La Tertulia's Thursday, Francisco Javier Abellan, and the Polyphonic Choir Hims Mola.
In this fifth edition, the Recognition of Cultural Dissemination Setenil has been given to the Medical Research Foundation Molina de Segura.
The creation of the EMF was an idea developed by several people, including economist Juan de Dios García Martínez and Professor of Pharmacology at the Autonomous University of Madrid Antonio García García.
With the support of the Hospital de Molina, various entrepreneurs and the City Council through its Mayor, Eduardo Contreras Linares, was formed in 2001.
Since then, MSF has organized more than a hundred lectures to spread in some cases given by figures of great international significance as the Nobel Prize in Medicine or astrophysicist Edwin Neher Rafael Rebolo.
Other activities are to organize summer schools, outreach and biomedical courses summer internship with students and researchers from the University of Murcia and foreign universities.
The informative work of the Foundation, which publishes a news magazine, has not stood in science and also covers areas such as art and literature.
Currently, the Foundation is chaired by José Antonio Lozano Teruel, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia, of which he was Rector from 1980 to 1984 and currently carries an extensive dissemination actions (that is, inter alia, for the newspaper La Verdad).
The secretariat of the Foundation since its inception has corresponded to Josefina García Lozano, teacher and true engine of this entity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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