Monday, Sept. 15th, 2014 a press conference held in the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo for the announcement of a Human Genomics project’s signature, between the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo and National University of Seoul. This project, supported by the Korean fund of the Inter-American Development Bank aims to develop in Uruguay, capacities to sequence the human genome for applications in research, genomic medicine and for the development of technologies and drugs.
Were present (in the right-to-left above): Juan José, Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank in Uruguay; Luis Porto, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay; Ricardo Ehrlich, Education and Culture Minister of Uruguay; Guillermo Dighiero, Chairman of the Board of Institut Pasteur Montevideo; Jorge Polgar, Vice Minister of Finance in Uruguay; Byoung-jin Han, Counsellor at the Embassy of Korea in Uruguay; Hugo Naya, head of Urugenomes project, Institut Pasteur in Montevideo.
