Dr. Ignacio Garcia Ribas said on Tuesday the Foundation’s Clinical Rosaleda the process of creating a drug.
How to create a drug was the subject of the lecture he gave at Compostela, Dr. Ignacio Garcia Ribas, within the series “Clinical Tuesday” of the The Rose Garden Foundation. The doctor, a native of Santiago, gave an overview of the evolution of pharmacotherapy from medicinal plants to modern medicine designed “Customized” for the treatment of complex diseases such as cancer.
The Dr. García Ribas reminded that mankind always “yearned back to health by the administration of foreign substances the body.” This medical science and allied chemical “Relatively little” Trying to find the mechanisms of action of natural remedies and “Little by little, knowledge of the molecular basis of many diseases, along with the ability to create custom molecules has allowed a rational approach to treatment of diseases”.
In the case of cancer For example, this has allowed a better understanding of many of the behaviors of certain tumors and power deal effectively, As has happened in the case of breast cancer. Although early detection also remains one of the key assets in the success of treatments. To this was added “All the regulatory development” certifying the validity of the results obtained for drugs in clinical trials “in both efficacy and safety,” said the speaker, who addressed the issue of human experimentation. Dr. Garcia Ribas highlighted the “Great development in the ethical principles that should govern human experimentation”So as to allow “the advancement of medicine while protecting the fundamental rights of patients.”
Fighting cancer, a development challenge
Dr. Garcia Ribas takes more than two years in the division of Sanofi Oncology, where he focuses on researching and developing new anticancer drugs. Previously, he conducted clinical research at Lilly Laboratories in Madrid and also worked as an oncologist at the hospital Marcide Architect of Ferrol, where he arrived in London after making his doctoral thesis on cancer gene therapy.
The conference was Dr. Garcia Ribas, as usual, with the assistance of more than 250 students from the faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, USC enrolled in the cycle. Along with the Rapporteur attended the ceremony the president of the Foundation The Rose Garden, Dr. Gerardo Fernandez Albor, Dr. Rafael Lopez, Chief of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Santiago, coordinator of the cycle, and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, John Gestal, who thanked the Foundation Center’s choice to carry out this act.