CINVESTAV

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Cinvestav


Established:	1961
Type:	Public
Endowment:	$79 259 780 USD (2000)
Director:	René Asomoza Palacio
Staff:	2518 (2000)
Location:	Several across Mexico
Campus:	Both urban and rural.
Colors:	Green and white
Affiliations:	National Polytechnic Institute
Website:	http://www.cinvestav.mx

The Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (in English: Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute), better known as Cinvestav (its Spanish acronym) 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:

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.