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Cuban Science Day Celebrated on Friday

CUBA, Jan 15, 2010. - The national scientific community celebrated Cuban Science Day on Friday with the sending to Revolution leader Fidel Castro of a copy of a picture of him taken 50 years ago, when he proclaimed the bases for scientific development in the country.

Cuba’s Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), Jose Miyar Barrueco, gave Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes a photograph with the image of Fidel and his words: "The future of our homeland has to be, necessarily, a future of men of science, of men of thinking."

Miyar Barrueco spoke during the main meeting to mark the date held on the island, which took place at the Universal Hall of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, in the presence of members of the Politburo and of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party, among other leaders.

Roberto Castellano, representative of that organization in the Cuban capital, highlighted the extension of HeberProt-P, a world leader in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, as one of the outstanding results obtained by scientists in Havana.

Also receiving acknowledgements for their notable work were the provinces of Granma, Ciego de Avila and Camagüey and the centers of Molecular Immunology, Immunoassay, and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Havana’s western scientific area.

Ramiro Valdes, Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, and Miyar Barrueco, cancelled a commemorative stamp for the Day of Cuban Science, which was established in 1990, three decades after Revolution leader Fidel Castro said his farsighted words. (Cubaminrex - acn)

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