The award ceremony will be held on Friday, April 21 at 20:00 in Ankara. Santa Barbara Castle in Alicante. 30 members will attend the event. Paris Rotary Club Celebrating its 101st anniversary on the same date and promoting various projects they are currently working on with Alicante Club.
Juan Soler, President of the Rotary Club of Alicante, Jorge Alio and SanzProfessor of Ophthalmology at UMH and founder of Vissum Miranza Alicante; Jose Miguel SempereProfessor of Immunology at UA and member of the Spanish Society of Immunology; Carolina VanhoutteFrom the organizing committee of the XIII Balmis Award; Abelardo Barranco, Macero of the Rotary Club of Alicante; and Maria Lopez Iglesias The chairman of the Jorge Alió Foundation announced the decision of this award this morning at the headquarters of the Association of Journalists of the State of Alicante.
A tribute to Alicante doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis, the award has a marked solidarity and relevance to the Alicante community. Its purpose is to help raise awareness about the importance of vaccines and immunization.
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Elia Torroella Busquets Pharmacy degree from the University of Barcelona He has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare and healthcare industry, particularly in prevention and vaccines. He is the director of R&D and Regulatory Affairs at Hipra.
His team is responsible for research, development and registration. highly innovative vaccines. In the last ten years they have succeeded in launching 22 new vaccines. Currently one of its main projects is research and development. covid-19 vaccine in spain.
Hipra has developed the first Spanish vaccine that offers significant clinical, immunological and practical advantages against covid-19, so it will be an international milestone in vaccination against covid-19 Hipra ranks sixth in the world vaccine ranking for animal health. The pharmaceutical company has 40 subsidiaries, 11 diagnostic centers and 6 production centers.
Balmis Award
Balmis Award born in 2009 to distinguish relevant personalities in the field of disease prevention and treatment, as well as in international development cooperation. Award doctor recalls from Alicante Francis Xavier de BalmisHead of the Royal Benevolent Expedition of Smallpox Vaccine, which traveled around the world between 1803 and 1806 and aimed to get this vaccine to all overseas territories of the Spanish Empire (the Americas, the Philippines and the colonial Portuguese Macao). Chinese.
Balmis Expedition can be considered as the first international health cooperation action of our country; Years later, what was achieved in 1980 was the first major step towards the eradication of smallpox in the world.
The award has been given continuously since its first edition. These were the winners:
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2009: Jose Navarro Alonso.
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2010: Jose Martin Moreno.
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2011: Jesus Aranaz Andres.
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2012: Pedro C. Cavadas Rodriguez.
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2013: Jose V. Tuells Hernandez.
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2014: Diego Torrus Store Owner.
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2015: Alfonso Puchades Avg.
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2016: Francisco J. Martinez Mojica.
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2017: Maria A. Blasco Marhuenda.
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2018: Pedro Alonso Fernandez.
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2019: Javier Aristegui Fernandez.
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2020: Denis Mukwege.
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2021: Elia Torroella Busquets.