CINVESTAV
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The Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, Cinvestav (Center for Advanced Research and Studies) is a Mexican non-governmental scientific research organization founded on 17 April 1961 by decree of then-president Adolfo López Mateos.
Cinvestav is affiliated to Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute and receives an annual subsidy from the government to fund its operations.
[edit] Campuses and departments
The institute is divided into 28 departments and 8 research centers; 3 of these are in Mexico City, while the others are dispersed across the country. They are located as follows:
- Mexico City
- Guadalajara, Jalisco [1]
- Irapuato, Guanajuato
- Mérida, Yucatán
- Querétaro
- Saltillo, Coahuila.
It consists of the following departments:
- Cellular Biology
- Molecular Biomedicine
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Environmental Toxicology
- Therapeutic and Experimental Pharmacology
- Physics
- Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience
- Animal Reproduction in Tlaxcala
- Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Electrical Engineering
- Bioelectronics
- Communications
- Automatic Control
- Solid State Electronics
- Metrology
- Engineering Projects
- Mechatronics
- Education Research
- Educational Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Experimental Pathology
- Chemistry
- Computing
[edit] References
- M. Nipper, J.A. Sánchez Chávez, and J.W. Tunnell, Jr., Editors (2006). GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research. Retrieved 15 January 2006.
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