UNPHU opens the Itinerant Museum: Brain and neurodegenerative diseases on World Alzheimer’s Day

Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña inaugurated its National Brain Bank Itinerant Museum (BNC-UNPHU): Brain and neurodegenerative diseases; as part of the celebration of the First International Congress ADRU 2023. Emerging Challenges of Higher Education in the Latin American Context, which was held from September 5 to 7, 2023.

The exhibition of the itinerant Museum will remain open throughout the month of September for the commemoration of the World Alzheimer’s Day, which is celebrated every year, the 21st of the referred month. During the exhibition there will be guided tours for students from different universities, conferences related to neurodegenerative diseases, scientific conferences, walks in coordination with the Dominican Association of Alzheimer’s (ADAS) and a poster competition, with which will promote brain donation. 

The tape was cut by the José Alt. Hazim Torres, rector of CEU and president of the Dominican Association of University Rectors (ADRU) and Josefina Pepín Ubrí, Vice-Chancellor of Research, Linkage and Internationalization Projects, UNPHU.

At the opening was Dr. Daysi Acosta, director of the National Brain Bank (BNC-UNPHU), who guided those present in the tour and gave an explanatory speech about the exhibitions; as well as Dr. José Guillén, director of Special Projects. It also had the presence of international guests such as Dr. José Eusebio Consuegra Bolívar, president of the Colombian Association of Universities, ASCUN; Dr. Roberto Escalante, secretary of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUALC); and Dr. Jaime Alberto Leal Afanador, president of the Iberoamerican Association of Distance Higher Education, AIESAD, UNAD rector; and by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT), the vice minister, Carmen Evarista Matías Pérez.

About the BNC-UNPHU

The National Brain Bank (BNC-UNPHU), the first in Central America and the Caribbean, is a biobank of brain tissue and other samples of neurological interest, based on the incorporation of patients with neurological diseases and healthy subjects through a post-mortem tissue donation program.