The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) delivers today in this capital its Medal for Inventors to the authors of Cuban vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic, which have prevented thousands of people from dying, including children in Cuba and in other countries.
The award corresponds to the innovations of Sovereign 01 and Sovereign 02, as well as Abdala and Mambisa, the latter two being considered a single creative initiative, the Master of Science, María de los Ángeles Sánchez Torres, reported exclusively to the Cuban News Agency. , Director General of the Cuban Office of Industrial Property (OCPI).
He confirmed that it will be awarded by Daren Tang (Singapore), Director General of WIPO, a UN agency based in Geneva, Switzerland, for his contributions to national, economic and technological development, and expanded his information with the following disclosures.
In the case of Soberana 01, the Finlay Vaccine Institute and the Molecular Immunology Center, Yury Valdés Balbín, Vicente Guillermo Verez Bencomo, Dagmar García Rivera, Yanet Climent Ruiz, Sonsire Fernández Castillo, Laura Marta Rodríguez Noda and Humberto González Rodríguez are deserving. .
Jesús Ramírez González, Mario Landys Chovel Cuervo, Rocmira Pérez Nicado, Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, Eduardo Ojito Magraz, Tammy Boggiano Ayo, Chen GuangWu and Reynaldo Oliva Hernández.
His colleagues from 02, the Finlay Vaccine Institute, the Molecular Immunology Center and the University of Havana are Yury Valdés Balbín, Darielys Santana Mederos, Sonsire Fernández Castillo, Dagmar García Rivera, Daniel García Rivera, Manuel García Ricardo and Laura Marta Rodriguez Noda.
Ubel Jesús Ramírez González, Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, Tammy Boggiano Ayo, Eduardo Ojito Magraz, Vicente Guillermo Verez Bencomo and Reynaldo Oliva Hernández.
De Abdala and Mambisa, from the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Glay Chinea Santiago, Alejandro Miguel Martín Dunn, Diamilé González Roche, Miladys Limonta Fernández, Enrique Iglesias Pérez, Mónica Bequet Romero, Héctor Jesús Santana Milián, Gabriel Jesús Márquez Perera and Alexis Mussachio Lasa.
Ania Cabrales Rico, Gerardo Enrique Guillén Nieto, Marta Ayala Ávila, Eulogio Pimentel Vázquez, Gertrudis Rojas Dorantes and Vivian.Huerta Galindo.
Despite the generalized and mediatic war of the United States governments for more than 60 years and accentuated more and more, 10 products of Cuban science have the WIPO Gold Medal from the first in 1989 to the last in 2015.
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Its history dates back to 1883 with the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and in 1974 it entered the UN as a specialized agency.
The Cuban Office of Industrial Property confers the registration of Industrial Property rights in Cuba and provides specialized scientific-technological services in order to contribute to the development of science, technology, innovation, national and foreign investment, industry And trade.
Each award consists of a medal on the invention and a certificate signed by the Director General of WIPO to its main authors and groups.
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