TIRANA, May 20/ATA/ The Academy of Sciences opened today the first international scientific conference “Biotechnology and genetics, developments and challenges of the future”, which was prepared under the auspices of its Chairman, acad. Skënder Gjinushi.
The conference started in the “Aleks Buda” hall of the Academy of Sciences with physical and online presence, which includes over 200 contributors and is attended by about 70 speakers from Albania, Austria, Egypt, France, Netherlands, Germany, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates Arab, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Italy.
In his speech on the first day of this conference acad. Skënder Gjinushi said that, “To arrive at this activity, there was needed a very serious and qualified work and commitment of the organizing committee and the biogenetics unit, which has been operating at the Academy of Sciences, for a year. The establishment of this unit, a new experience in the practice of functioning of Academy, enabled under the new law, showed in this time frame the efficiency, as well as its related units: the nanotechnology called NANO-ALB, the unit of geophysics and seismology or that of artificial intelligence”.
Gjinushi emphasized that, “Through it, the Academy has been able to respond to both acute problems that emerged before the science of health institutions, and many problems and questions related to the pandemic caused by COVID-19, as well as problems of perspective, related to the development of the science of biotechnology and genetics as a whole ”./p.s./
