Feevale University will hold the Seminar Advances in prevention and diagnosis in global health: scientific and entrepreneurial potential, and Ricardo Izurieta, Director of Donald Price Parasitology Center, University of South Florida, the United States, and scientific advisor to WASTE International, the Netherlands, and the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden. Izurieta is also vice president of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Panama. The event will take place on June 14, Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Feevale Techpark, in Campo Bom. Free registration, up to two days before the event, through www.feevale.br/cursoseeventos, or at Feevale Student Service Center at both campuses.

The seminar aims to present the advances, challenges and opportunities of innovation in the control and diagnosis of emerging diseases from the perspective of reality in the performance of the intense traffic of pathogens between countries. Besides Professor Izurieta, Flávio Guimarães da Fonseca, Biological Sciences (Microbiology) PhD and coordinator of the postgraduate course in Microbiology at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG); and the coordinator of the master's degree in Virology of Feevale University, Fernando Rosado Spilki will host the event. More information at www.feevale.br/cursoseeventos or (51) 3586-8822.