Marina Simion spoke after the meeting with Mauricio Macri, who received it for his participation in the program who Wants to be a millionaire, where he went to find money for his research at the CONICET.
Specialist in the development of new treatments for breast cancer, Simion exposed the state in which the national science is found by the sub-execution and the budget cut. “We talk about what needs to be done in the short term to start alleviating the situation of the scientists,” he said after his meeting with Macri and, through his Twitter account, specified what were the points they played: import tax and Door-door for research reagents
Payment in time and form of the subsidies awarded
Wage recomposition
Simplifying the management of foreign subsidies such as GSK
Incorporation of Drs. Alberto Kornblihtt and Mario Pecheny to the directory of Conicet
Improve communication with the scientific community
The first four points have to be resolved right away. The president gave me his support and I will do everything possible to make the changes happen. I’ll keep you informed. — Marina Simion (@MarinaSimian)
May 10, 2019
In this context, and always through his Twitter, Simion explained that he posed as a priority MACRI updating the amounts of subsidies, improve the mechanisms of patenting and “expedite and redesign the processes of evaluation of the Secretary and the Conicet.” As he described, Macri gave him his support for the changes to occur and she compromeitó to “meet with the officials that correspond to promote the changes.”
