CINVESTAV stands for Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (Center for Research and Advanced Studies), affiliated to Mexico's IPN (National Polytechnic Institute) in Mexico. With several campi in the country, it is one of the most prominent research institutes in Mexico.
Cinvestav opened in 1961 as an initiative of the public sector to respond to the increasing demand in México of high-level technical human resources and the need to carry out research and technology development.
Cinvestav currently counts with research units in 5 states with around 500 full-time researchers, 1500 posgraduate students and 43 posgraduate programs iin exact, biological, health and social sciences, engineering and technology.
The Guadalajara Campus started its activities in 1988 with the opening of CTS focusing ion electronic components design with the collaboration of IBM and the National Commission of Foreign Investments.
CINVESTAV is authorized to develop, grow, use and sell further generations of PVX/PVY virus-resistant potato in Mexico, Central America, South America and Africa.
The CINVESTAV is a network of public research institutes under the Mexican Ministry of Public Education.
However, the programme seems to be particularly interesting for CINVESTAV, which in a relatively short period has had the possibility to train its scientists in the whole process from the construction of the vector to the evaluation of field tests.
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