Cuban Academy of Sciences awards scientific research prizes

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 2 (ACN) The Cuban Academy of Sciences announced that Thursday it will award its 84 prizes for the results of scientific research in 2023, one of the highest numbers since its convocation years ago.

The Convent of San Francisco de Asis will be the venue for the ceremony of these well-deserved awards to Cuban researchers, PhD. Nancy Pavon Fuentes, secretary of the institution, told the Cuban News Agency.

Prizes will be awarded for Moringa oleifera Lam, as a functional food in Cuba, and biotechnological strategies for the production of medicinal plants of pharmacological interest, as well as artificial intelligence and numerical modeling aimed at improving the vision of the Cuban population, as well as optimization models and techniques applied to transportation problems.

Metal complexes with anticancer properties derived from acylthioureas and Removal and concentration of pharmaceutical pollutants from wastewater by extraction with novel sorbents will also receive awards.

In the Biomedical Sciences, the following were highlighted: Alterations of emotional regulation in Mental Disorders: Search for trans-diagnostic bio-markers and Therapeutic algorithm with hypnosis for monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis.

Finally, in the social and humanistic areas, the most outstanding were The people of the world: a decolonizing and counter-hegemonic vision, Other views on the history of Cuba, and Pedagogical integrality in the university training of education professionals.

The Annual Awards of the Cuban Academy of Sciences were established in 1986 in accordance with one of its most important functions: to promote the recognition of outstanding scientists and groups, and to promote and encourage the observance of the principles of the professional ethics of scientists.