Biotechnology, amid opportunities and challenges

El sector biotecnológico podría convertirse en una industria prometedora para el país.

In light of the new transformations in the political panorama of Cuba-U.S. relations, new possibilities are coming up of clinical essays and the export of Cuban cancer vaccines to the northern nation. The island’s great development in this sector makes it possible for U.S. scientists and from all over the world to become interested in those products.


Biotecnología, entre oportunidades y desafíos

El sector biotecnológico podría convertirse en una industria prometedora para el país.

A la luz de las nuevas transformaciones en el panorama político de las relaciones Cuba-Estados Unidos, salen a relucir nuevas posibilidades de ensayos clínicos y de exportación de vacunas cubanas contra el cáncer hacia la nación norteña. El gran desarrollo de la isla en este sector hace posible que científicos estadounidenses y de todo el mundo se interesen en esos productos.


Emergence and development of the biotechnological sector in Cuba

Biotechnology has a promising development in Cuba, where this sector started being strengthened since the 1980s and today is among the Caribbean nation’s principal economic and scientific areas, which is attracting the attention and interest of the first world. From the production of vaccines to that of transgenic animals, of diagnosis systems to a wide gamut of cutting-edge pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, together with other results in the field of human health, that high-tech industry today represents one of the most important export lines for the country.