The history of how the free radicals and oxidative stress branch became a part of the Mexican biochemical society

✍ Scribed by Mina Königsberg; Tania Zenteno-Savin; Abel Santamaría; Julio Morán

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 271 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1521-6543
• DOI: 10.1002/iub.556

✦ Synopsis

It all started more than 10 years ago. The 5th Annual Meeting of The Oxygen Society was being held in Washington, DC, in November 1998. A small group of Mexican scientists were among the attendees who met during the poster session. The group included Tania Zenteno, Miguel Beltra ´n, and Daniel Herrera. These scientists traveled to the meeting from different parts of Mexico and each were convinced to be the only Mexican working in the oxidative stress field. So, they were amazed by the fact that they had to come all the way to the United States to find out that there were other groups in Mexico interested in the same field and with whom they could collaborate. Under the leadership of Tania Zenteno-Savin (Centro de Investigaciones Biolo ´gicas del Noroeste, Baja California, Mexico), the scientists created a national web for oxidative stress (Red Neo).

Tania Zenteno-Savin went on to organize and host the First (October 2001) and Second (February 2005