The PCC, the Administration and the Union congratulate the ESCEG on the occasion of Science Day

On the occasion of the day of science, the PCC, the Administration and the Union to the ESCEG on the occasion of the day of science send a special congratulations to all the researchers of the ESCEG Fragment of the interview with Yuri Valdés Balbín: Science in Cuba has a face. Published in the newspaper Trabajadores on January 10, 2022. Differences between doing science in Cuba and in the world? There are several distinguishing features. First, in Cuba science has a face. If you ask who made the Cuban vaccines, all the people can point us out. But if you ask who made the Pfizer vaccine, no one knows. Therefore, it humanizes a lot and gives more credibility when things have a face. Today we may have done something like a major delivery, but that is the work system that we have always had. Cuban science works hard, it is very consecrated, they are capabilities created over many years. All generations are active in this part of biotechnology. The founders participated and the recent graduates too. Second, we are not competitors. I would be lying if I told you that the CIGB and Finlay did not fight to get to the vaccine first, but always on the basis of integration. Above all is the work, the life of the people. Nor do we compete between scientists. Each one contributes the best capacity of him, and the sum of all gives the result. It's like a puzzle, where if you're missing a tile it doesn't come together and it only goes in one way.