Santo Domingo. The National Evangelical University, UNEV, and its Academic Council, recognized 36 researchers this Monday for their contributions to science and technology, in a ceremony held in the building of the Faculty of Business Sciences (FACEDE).

The event was headed by the rector of the institution, Eng. Epifanio González Minaya, who was accompanied by authorities representing the different work areas of the institution.

“Today our academy pays tribute and has called us to recognize 36 of its members who have contributed to the advancement of a research culture from the academy, contributing to the development of the country. I can announce with satisfaction that as a result of the efforts of these researchers we are in the process of obtaining two patents,” added the rector of UNEV.

The researchers honoured are Alberto Julio Núñez Sellés, director of Research at UNEV for the Entowaste and Mango projects as a Senior Researcher, and as a collaborator in the Cáscara Cascarilla, Tribicard and Promancoa projects. Alejandro Julio Abril González, professor and scientific researcher in the area of ​​Humanities, for the Caña energética and Promancoa projects. Antonio Selman Almonte, full academic, Dominican Academy of Medicine; César Ernesto López Cabrera, researcher and member of the FEU, as head of the Organic Cocoa and Sargassum project. Helmut Betancourt Dalmasi, affiliated researcher,

to the National Career of Researchers of the Dominican Republic, was awarded for the projects Ovejas Katahdyn, and Sargazos, Luis Orlando Maroto Marín, member of the National Commission of the Biology Career of the University of Havana for Inmudianóstico, María Dolores Durruthy Rodríguez, member of the Cuban Society of Physics for the project Película, Matxy and Cerámicas. Marisol Ventura López, member of the Dominican Society of Agricultural and Forestry Researchers as a senior researcher in the Cáscara Cascarilla project; Marlen Ramil Mesa, head of the Pilot Plant at the UNEV Research Center, as a collaborator in the Cerámicas and Promancoa projects. Also Licda. Miledy Santana de Guerrero, in charge of planning at UNEV; Moisés Hernández García as principal investigator in the Ceramics and Films project, Natalia de la Caridad Vega, also for Films, Rafael Guillén Marmolejos and Rodolfo Antonio Núñez Musa, for Tribicard.

También fueron reconocidos Víctor Espaillat Martínez, por el proyecto Mango; Wilfredo Mañón Rossi, ex rector de la UNEV e investigador adjunto del área de Ciencias de la Salud en la Carrera Nacional de Investigación; Smerlin Paulino Frías, director (CASTA-UNEV) como  titular del proyecto Sargazos y Cacao Orgánico, Jehová Peña, consultor; Carlitos García, investigador del proyecto “Ventanas Inteligente”; o Smart Windows y Santa Guzmán, Vicerrectora Académica, colaboradora en el proyecto MATXY. Además de Héctor Mena Valerio, Orlando Rodríguez, Iliana Rosa García, Basilio Almonte, Eugenia de la Cruz, Libia Alcántara, el equipo de investigación de CBL también fue reconocido por sus contribuciones al proyecto de inmunodiagnóstico., Svetlana Afanasieva, Agripina Ramírez Sánchez, Lucia Berigüete, Darwin Muñoz, Victoria Bárbara Arencibia Sosa y Héctor Valerio Mena. A los galardonados se les entregó placas y pergaminos en reconocimiento por su colaboración en el desarrollo de una cultura de investigación en esta academia. Fuente: UNEV