Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has just classified a patent from the Centre of Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the Universidad de Navarra as an "orphan drug".

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

The President of the Government of Navarre, Miguel Sanz, the Regional Minister for Industry, José Javier Armendáriz, and the Deputy Director of the public company Sodena, Javier Berazaluce, paid a visit to Brookhaven National Laboratory, located about 100 kilometres from New York..

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products has just classified a patent from the Centre of Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the Universidad de Navarra as an "orphan drug".

Newspaper: La Gaceta de los Negocios

The compound has received the support of the US health agency.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

Iribarren highlights improvements in Industry and job creation and on a negative note refers to the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

The Government of Navarre has set up the first Spanish venture capital fund for nanotechnology through Sodena.

Newspaper: Negocios de Navarra

The III Nanotechnology Congress was held in Pamplona from 20 - 23 March.
During four days in March, in the streets and bars of the Old Part of Pamplona you could hear conversations about 'spins', 'squids', 'quantum moments' and 'elementary particles' involving young people with black briefcases.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

Yesterday the III National Nanotechnology Congress was inaugurated, with around 250 scientists attending.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

In 2006-2007 the Government of Navarre will invest 1.5 million euros to strengthen the biotechnology sector in the region. This was announced by the Regional Minister for Industry, José Javier Armendáriz, during the seminar held yesterday.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

Full employment is understood to be an unemployment rate below 5%.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

“The average level of investment in R&D in the country stands at 1.07%”

The sector of Higher Education is the one with the greatest planned increase in investment, 85.9% more than in 2003.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

Navarre has joined Fundación Genoma España, a project whose aim is to promote business initiatives with a biotechnological base and to develop genome and proteome research. The Government of Navarre has joined the Governing Board of Fundación Genoma España, which is composed of the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Science, the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Regional Minister of Health of the region of Madrid, the Xunta de Galicia and Laboratorios Esteve.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

“326 people from 17 countries work in the centre, of the 350 initially forecast”

The Centro de Investigación Aplicada (CIMA) of the Universidad de Navarra is celebrating its first anniversary. During this time the research carried out has generated 18 patents. The Centre reports that three patents have been granted for Spain and (as the case may be) other countries such as Germany, Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, Holland, Sweden, Russia, China, Australia and Mexico. The patents are for interferon alpha 5 (for viral problems in the liver), inhibiting peptides of the TGF Beta 1 growth factor (for a chronic skin disease) and cardiotrophine (for liver diseases). Among the patents applied for is one, anphirreguline, which protects the liver during acute hepatic failure.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

“ It will cover 300 square metres and will have hundreds of water jets ”

“ The maximum number of visitors expected in a full year is 150,000 ”

By 2006 Senda Viva aims to build the largest water maze in Europe with a surface area of 300 square metres. It will be located in the lower area of the park near the fairground and the sandwich bar.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

“To speak of crisis is nonsense, we have the highest budget per capita in Spain”

In the face of an offensive from Opposition parties, the Vice-president and Regional Minister of Economy and Taxation of the Government of Navarre rejects the main accusation: it is not true that cutbacks on social spending are taking place.

Newspaper: Diario de Navarra

The recently-created company Digna Biotech will invest over half a million euros this year in the development of the first seven patents obtained in the Centre of Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the Universidad de Navarra.

Newspaper: Diario de Noticias

Crown Prince Felipe and Doña Leticia inaugurated the centre of the Universidad de Navarra and visited its laboratories.

15 companies have come together to finance the project, which has also received individual contributions.

Newspaper: Diario de Noticias

Prince Felipe referred to Navarre as an example of dynamism and progress.

A research centre that is able to call on such generous public and private funding needs to be managed transparently and provide a service to the whole of society.

Magazine: Negocios en Navarra

In its 150th issue, Negocios en Navarra magazine has published a special supplement dedicated to 40 years of industrialization in Navarre, the starting point being the 40th anniversary of the approval of the PPI (Industrial Promotion Programme) approved in 1964 by the Diputación (Territorial Administration) of Navarre, whose President was Félix Huarte Goñi.