Last week we welcomed Dr. Daniel Salamone, President of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and a leading researcher in the field. He has led numerous research and development projects in Argentina in the area of animal reproductive biotechnology.
Dr. Salamone has published over 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and several start-ups have grown out of his laboratory.
In a meeting with Rector Ülle Jaakma – who shares the same research focus, as she is a professor of domestic animal physiology – discussions centered on how Estonia and Argentina could strengthen scientific cooperation in biotechnology and carry out tangible joint projects. There is certainly a wider range of promising collaboration opportunities between our countries, including in energy, animal and human health, biodiversity and ocean studies, as well as artificial intelligence.
During a meeting with the researchers of the Estonian University of Life Sciences’ embryo laboratory, future prospects for animal cloning and gene-editing technologies were discussed.
Argentinian scientists successfully cloned a horse in 2010; the Estonian University of Life Sciences is expecting its first cloned foal to be born in 2025. Meanwhile, under the leadership of Professor Ülle Jaakma, Estonia’s first cloned calf was born back in 2013. Both sides are eager to cooperate.
