Dr. Vicente Verez Bencomo

Ocupation: General Management

Twitter: @BencomoVerez

He is a Cuban scientist with a nationally and internationally recognized career. He is the lead author of the synthetic antigen vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). He is a Chemical Engineer from the "Lomonosov" Institute in Moscow, a State Doctor from the University of Orleans (France, 1983), a Doctor Honoris causa from the Canadian University of Quebec in Montreal and Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 1984 he assumed the direction of the Carbohydrates Laboratory, which in 1990 was strengthened and changed its name to the Synthetic Antigens Laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry of Havana University. In 2008 he was appointed director of the Center for Biomolecular Chemistry (CQB), created from the union between the Center for Pharmaceutical Chemistry (CQF) and the University Laboratory. He has received various awards such as the Special Award from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment for the Result of Greater Scientific Relevance (1999 and 2004), Tech Museum of Innovation, San José (California), and the Award with the Knight Order of the Legion of Honor (2015), which is the best known and most important of the French distinctions and which is awarded to men and women for extraordinary merits.