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It will allow the province of Misiones to increase diagnostic capacities and human resources focused on the health problems of the region and the pandemic situation.The Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation through the Institutional Evaluation Program PEI of the Secretariat for Scientific and Technological Articulation granted 12763213 pesos to the National University of Misiones UNaM for the installation of the Biosafety Level 2 laboratory which will allow to enhance the generation of knowledge provision of services training and training of human resources and provide strategic facilities related to the diagnosis epidemiological and genomic surveillance of COVID-19 in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic as well as the approach of other endemic and emerging diseases in the region such as dengue Zika Chikungunya and HPV among others.Through a videoconference an act was held to announce the approval of the financing to strengthen scientific and technological capacities headed by the Minister of Science Roberto Salvarezza who said We have a debt with science in the provinces. From the MINCYT the objective is to provide the province with a complementary capacity to the one it already has complement it with more diagnostic capacity with having a biosafety laboratory and tomorrow attend to other types of diseases on the other hand return the concentrated science established in the middle of the country . Salvarezza highlighted articulation and federalization two axes that run through science management.The objective of the project is to create an R D i space with the concept of research facilities that promotes research the validation of in-house diagnostic tests epidemiological surveillance genomic characterization of pathogens related to emerging endemic and pandemic infectious diseases and technological development within the framework of the UNaM Laboratory Network. In addition if necessary to provide diagnostic services on demand. Some of the projects acquisitions are the construction of a container as a BSL2 level biosafety work area laboratory a double-input real-time thermal cycler a sequencer with nanopores a biological safety cabinet a refrigerated micro-centrifuge for 24 samples two cultivation stoves with possibility for CO2.
