MEDICC Rev. 2008 Apr;10(2):11-3. doi: 10.37757/MR2008.V10.N2.3.
Pedro Valdés spent his childhood in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he says his love of science began. After his family returned to Cuba in 1961, he studied medicine, received his PhD in biological sciences, and in 1990 at the age of 40, founded the Cuban Neuroscience Center with a group of young scientists that included his brother Mitchell, now the Center's Director. Since then, the Center has accumulated an impressive record developing patented neuroimaging diagnostic equipment for national use and export, a nationwide infant screening program for hearing loss, and the Cuban Brain Mapping Project, among other pioneering efforts. The Center's recruitment of new graduates keeps the median age of its professionals at 28, and its scientists are the island's most widely published outside of Cuba.
佩德罗·巴尔德斯（Pedro Valdés）在美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥度过了童年时光，他说他对科学的热爱始于那里。1961 年，他的家人回到古巴后，他开始学习医学，获得了生物科学博士学位，并于 1990 年，在 40 岁时，与包括他的兄弟米切尔（Mitchell）在内的一群年轻科学家一起创立了古巴神经科学中心（Cuban Neuroscience Center），米切尔现在是该中心的主任。从那时起，该中心积累了令人印象深刻的记录，为国家开发了专利神经影像学诊断设备并用于出口、建立了全国性的婴儿听力损失筛查计划，以及开展了古巴大脑映射项目等开创性工作。该中心不断招募新的毕业生，使其专业人员的平均年龄保持在 28 岁，其科学家是古巴境外发表论文最多的科学家。
