In an official meeting, the Scientific Ethics Committee of the University of La Serena presented the progress and challenges of 2019, an event that allowed agreements to be concluded together with the Rector's Office and the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies.

The meeting was held on Monday, July 8, in the Raúl Bitrán Room. The members of the Committee participated, along with the Rector of the campus, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, and the Vice Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Dr. Eduardo Notte Cuello.

The objective of the meeting was to present the main advances and challenges of the Committee for the current year; This is within the framework of the next application for accreditation granted by the Ministry of Health, a certification that allows compliance with current legislation.

The Rector of the University, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, thanked us for the meeting and stated that “it is a pleasure to work like this, since it is the dynamic that we must have as a University, to be accredited in every sense.” In addition, he established the commitment to generate the appropriate infrastructure so that the Committee can operate optimally, in addition to all the technical inputs necessary to achieve the main objective.

Likewise, the Executive Secretary of the ULS Scientific Ethics Committee, Dr. Paola Salas Rivas, stressed the importance of the presence of the Rector and Vice-Rector, since it allows the Committee's objective to materialize. “What the Scientific Ethics Committee does is show that the researchers' actions are supported by the institution. The researcher is no longer alone, but is linked to the team at the time his project goes through the Scientific Ethics Committee,” she said.

The presentation ended with the agreement to meet in the next 15 business days, in order to review the agreements and progress made at the meeting, and thus work together for the accreditation application for August.

Written by Paula Godoy, ULS Journalist