Mexico and the world They have 7 new biomedical researchers: Paola Cepeda García, Alfredo Fernández Becerril, Anna Luz Gómez Plchová, Rodrigo González Flores, Dennet Guerra Sandoval, Michelle Téllez Sutterlin and Mahiru Trejo León, capable of providing scientific answers within the reach of humanity and expanding the frontiers of knowledge, who make up the 48th generation of the Bachelor of Basic Biomedical Research (LIBB), characterized by their enthusiasm, strength and resilience.
To celebrate this great achievement, the Graduation Ceremony of the 2020-2024 Generation was held on June 17, where Dr. Ana Carolina Sepúlveda Vildósola, Director of the UNAM Faculty of Medicine, highlighted her efforts to achieve her dreams. and assured that “They demonstrated a deep dedication to the search for knowledge even in adverse circumstances, in an exceptional way.”
In that sense, he invited them to “act in a professional manner, with bioethics and academic integrity as guiding principles of their conduct, always reflecting on the limits and scope of science, as well as its importance for society. Also be grateful to our National University, whose mission is to train young people like you to face the great challenges that our country experiences. “Feel the commitment wherever you go and the pride of being Pumas.”
During the event held in the “Alfonso Escobar Izquierdo” auditorium of the Biomedical Research Institute (IIBO), Dr. Imelda López Villaseñor, Director of the IIBO, made a brief remembrance about the creation of the LIBB until its launch in 1974 On the other hand, he recognized and highlighted the particularities of this generation: “You began your academic training in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic in the current era. Along the way we had to implement urgent health measures to protect the health of the population and also teaching strategies to continue with distance educational programs. Teachers and students reinvent ourselves so as not to stop the teaching-learning process. We got stronger and won, so I am sure that the challenges they have experienced will be a boost for the academic and professional life they are now beginning.”
With warm congratulations, Dr. Luis Bernardo Tovar y Romo, Director of the Institute of Cellular Physiology, reminded them that “They have a great future in their hands and the responsibility to continue with everything that the University has instilled in them, an academic and scientific training based on a successful, multidisciplinary and multi-site program”. Likewise, she took advantage of the moment to also congratulate those around the graduates. Finally, he pointed out that scientific research is an adventure and recommended that they maintain the desire to ask questions, as well as the determination and motivation: “You will always find yourself asking questions about how a cell, a system, a more complex system works. an organism, etc.
For his part, Dr. Juan Miranda Ríos, Coordinator of the LIBB, advised them to prepare for the long and complicated experiments that they will encounter along the way, by proposing an analogy between an outstanding figure in American football and the scientific role in the biomedicine: “I must confess that I am a fan of American football, therefore, following Tom Brady’s speech, from the biomedical context, I would say something like this: ‘I would encourage everyone to do scientific research for the simple reason that it is difficult. It is difficult when you are young and have to wake up early to take classes on complicated topics and work in the laboratory, find sterility colonies, centrifuge agarose gels, feed rats or another biological model, and do these activities even on weekends and vacations. ‘. Sometimes he comes home tired, but with a strong desire to return to the laboratory the next morning to have the opportunity to try that important experiment, hoping that now it will work.”
Later, Dr. Daniel Alejandro Fernández Velasco, professor and tutor at the LIBB, stated: “There is something deeply human about developing our minds to explore and question, to try to understand. In some particular cases, this quality resists and we become scientists. The drive of the heart to embrace knowledge manifested itself in you with enough clarity and certainty to decide to enter a laboratory at an early age and study the degree that brings us together today.” Subsequently, he reflected on what virtuality represented, the memories he left and expressed his best wishes: “Every adversity has a hidden opportunity to learn, between thermodynamic races and Galileo’s thermometer, together we discovered the pleasure of deriving an equation. After all this, a season of great decisions begins, I hope from the depths that they find her passion and in it solutions to contribute to society.”
Finally, to represent the graduates, Paola Cepeda and Alfredo Fernández offered an emotional message: “After demonstrating our talents and vocation through a screen, today we graduate from one of the most unique programs of our University. We form tangible friendships, each one takes the teachings of 3 to 4 different scientific families, these projects are irrefutable proof that we know how to do science. In laboratories we find our second home and, in its inhabitants, our second family. If we have learned anything in our years of training, it is to adapt, to not fear the unknown, since they have given us all the tools we need to explore the universe, to illuminate any path of knowledge, no matter how dark it may be.”
Photographs: Keninseb García, Gaceta Biomédicas, IIBO, UNAM
Congratulations and the greatest success to our graduates!
Isabel Garcia
