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Informe Anual 2003 INSTITUTO MINISTERIO VENEZOLANO DE DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS INFORME ANUAL 2003 El Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas es un Instituto Oficial Autónomo, adscrito al Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, crea- do mediante Decreto - Ley N 521 de fecha 09 de enero de 1959, publicado en la Gaceta Oficial de la República de Venezuela N 25.883 de fecha 09 de febrero de 1959; ahora, Ley de Reforma Parcial de la Ley que crea el Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas publicada en la Gaceta Oficial de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela N 37.022 del 25 de agosto de 2000. INDICE GENERAL ORGANIGRAMA 5 CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS. 349 CONSEJO DIRECTIVO 7 SERVICIOS AUXILIARES Y ADMISTRATIVOS 359 PERSONAL EJECUTIVO 9 QUIMBIOTEC,C.A. 363 COMISIONES ASESORAS Y TECNICAS 11 SERVICIOS ACADEMICOS INFORME ANUAL DEL DIRECTOR 13 Biblioteca “Marcel Roche” 367 Fotografía Científica 371 CENTROS Y DEPARTAMENTOS DE INVESTIGACION Bioterio 373 Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica 37 DEPENDENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS Centro de Ecología 83 Unidades Adscritas a la Dirección 377 Centro de Física 125 Gerencia de Gestión Financiera y Operativa 382 Centro de Medicina Experimental 159 Gerencia de Gestión de Apoyo Administrativo 390 Centro de Microbiología y Biología Celular 185 Gerencia de Informática y Sistemas 398 Centro de Química 215 Departamento de Antropología 271 Departamento de Biología Estructural 291 Departamento de Estudio de la Ciencia 305 Departamento de Matemáticas 319 Centro Tecnológico 331 3 ORGANIGRAMA (1) Servicios Académicos a la Investigación La Estructura Organizativa del Área Administrativa fue aprobada en sesión del Consejo Directivo Nº 1.109 de fecha 27/06/02. 5 CONSEJO DIRECTIVO MIEMBROS DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO AL 31/12/2003 Egidio Romano Director Jesús del Castillo Sub-Director Máximo García Sucre Representante del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología Luis F. Marcano G. Representante del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes (Hasta 07/03) Representante del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Desde 07/03) Raúl Padrón Crema Representante del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Hasta 07/03) Representante del Ministerio de Educación Superior (Desde 07/03) Luis Burguillos Primer Director Laboral, Principal Jesús Acosta Segundo Director Laboral, Principal María C. Sulbaran Primera Directora Laboral, Suplente Evencia Bernal Segunda Directora Laboral, Suplente Ricardo Quiroga Consultor Jurídico del IVIC Secretario ad hoc 7 PERSONAL EJECUTIVO INVESTIGACION, DOCENCIA Y SERVICIOS Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica Centro de Microbiología y Biología Departamento de Matemáticas Jefe: Reinaldo Marín (Hasta 02/03) Celular Jefe: Carlos Di Prisco Rafael Apitz (Desde 02/03) Jefe: Hilda Pérez SubJefe: Miguel Méndez SubJefe: Erica Jaffé SubJefe: Flor Pujol Centro de Química Centro de Estudios Avanzados Centro de Ecología Jefe: Joaquín Brito Decano: Carlo Caputo Jefe: Margarita Lampo (Hasta 06/03) SubJefe: Maribel Navarro Vicedecano:Andrés Soyano Jesús E. Conde (Desde 06/03) SubJefe: Jesús E. Conde (Hasta 06/03) Departamento de Antropología Centro Tecnológico Elizabeth Olivares (Desde 06/03) Jefe: Bertha Pérez Jefe del Centro: Roberto Callarotti SubJefe: Lilliam Arvelo Gerente: Juan Aguiar Centro de Física Jefe: Ernesto Medina D. Departamento de Biología Biblioteca “Marcel Roche” SubJefe: Germán Urbina Estructural Jefe: Xiomara Jayaro Jefe: Raúl Padrón Centro de Medicina Experimental SubJefe: Leonardo Mateu Servicio de Fotografía Científica Jefe: Peter Taylor (Hasta 12/03) Coordinador: Fabián Michelangeli SubJefe: Zulay Layrisse Leira Salazar (Desde 12/03) Jefe: Mardonio Díaz Unidad de Cirugía Experimental Departamento de Estudio de la Servicio de Bioterio Jefe de la Unidad: Humberto Azpúrua Ciencia Jefe: Ernesto Candela Coordinador: Andrés Soyano Jefe: Hebe Vessuri SubJefe: Yajaira Freites Dimec Jefe: Víctor Anciello AREA ADMINISTRATIVA Gerencia de Gestión Financiera y Gerencia de Administración y Oficina de Cooperación Técnica Operativa Finanzas Gisela González (Hasta 06/03) Lira Parra Danilo Aldana Edwin Rodríguez (Desde 06/03) Gerencia de Gestión de Apoyo Gerencia de Recursos Humanos Oficina de Prensa Administrativo Leida Blanco (Hasta 07/03) Ana Hierro (Hasta 04/03) Milagros Maldonado Isabel Curtis (Desde 08/03) María Teresa Curcio (Desde 04/03) Gerencia de Informática y Sistemas Oficina de Presupuesto Oficina de Relaciones Públicas Jesús del Castillo (E) Rita Dos Ramos Erika Díaz Consultoría Jurídica Oficina de Operaciones y División de Protección Integral Ricardo Quiroga Mantenimiento Morella Ruiz Dagger Héctor Hernández Auditoria Interna Red de Computación Académica María Dolores Padilla Oficina de Servicios Generales Jesús Quiroz Luis Arroyo Centro de Estudios Avanzados Red de Computación Coordinador Ejecutivo Oficina de Compras y Administrativa María Corina Pinedo Abastecimiento Yvonne Cabrera Josué Heiva 9 COMISIONES ASESORAS Y TECNICAS COMISION CLASIFICADORA SUBCOMISION CLASIFICADORA DE COMISION PARA LA CONSERVACION PAI/TAI Y DIFUSION DEL PATRIMONIO Director Egidio Romano. ARTISTICO DEL IVIC Miembros Principales de los PAI Sub-Director Jesús del Castillo. Yarisma González, Beulah Griffe. Coordinadora Mirtha Romano. Miembros Principales Roberto Miembro Suplentes de los PAI Miembros Horacio Vanegas, Roberto Sánchez, Gioconda San Blas, Gisela José Bolivar, Lorenzo Alamo. Sánchez, Fabián Michelangeli, Victor Cuenca, Maribel Navarro. Guedez, Víctor Varela, Carlos Di Miembros Principales de los TAI Prisco. Miembros Suplentes Italo Cesari, Saúl Flores, Gilberto Sánchez. Arístides Marcano, Juan Ernesto Ludert, Erika Wagner. Miembros Suplentes de los TAI María Guinle, César Matos. COMISION DE VIVIENDAS Forman parte de esta Subcomisión los Coordinador Rafael Gassón. COMISION DE LICITACIONES investigadores: Erika Jaffe, Belsy Guerrero, Zully Benzo, Angel Viloria. Vicedecano Andrés Soyano. Coordinadora Lira Parra. Miembro Permanente Alfredo Miembros Principales Danilo Aldana, Mijares, María de las N. García. Xiomara Jayaro, Sara Pekerar. COMISION DE BIOETICA Miembros Suplentes Martha Ruiz, Coordinador Rafael Apitz. Guillermina Aguiar,Héctor Hernández, COMISION DE SEGURIDAD Y Carlos Torrealba. Miembros Augusto León, Carmen ASUNTOS NUCLEARES Quintana, Eduardo Romero, Nelly Secretario Josué Hevia. Arvelo, Rixio Parra, Carlos Rivas, José Coordinador Egidio Romano. Cardier, Stefania Marcantognini, Consultoría Jurídica Francesca Sergio Arias. Miembros Federico Gutt, David Lea, Petruzzo. Paolo Traversa, Roberto Callarotti, Rixio Parra. COMISION USUARIOS DEL COMISION DE ESTUDIOS CEA BIOTERIO COMISION DE HIGIENE Y Decano Carlo Caputo. Miembros Ernesto Candela, Beatriz SEGURIDAD INDUSTRIAL Brito, Leiria Salazar, Victor Tortorici. Vicedecano Andrés Soyano. Miembros Principales Francisco Herrera, Mercedes de la Rosa, Ajoy Miembros Principales Arquímedes Banerjee, Manuel Laya, Freddy Karam, Elizabeth Olivares, Stella COMISION ASESORA DE LA RED Benavides, Jesús Chapellin. Brassesco. DE COMPUTACION Miembros Suplentes Eder Peña, Miembros Suplentes Flor Pujol, Miembros Jesús del Castillo, Jesús Marlene Gerder, Rubén Machado, Ricardo Paredes, Werner Wilbert. Quiroz, Julio Maestre. Avilio Sánchez, Jesús Acosta, Mary Labady. COMISION ASESORA DE LA COMISION DE COMUNICACION BIBLIOTECA "MARCEL ROCHE" Coordinador Jesús del Castillo. Coordinadora Gioconda San Blas. Miembros Gioconda San Blas, Miembros Ismardo Bonalde, Elizabeth Ananías Escalante ,Claudio Mendoza, Olivares, Sergio Arias. María Teresa Curcio. 11 INFORME DEL DIRECTOR PERIODO 01/01/2003 AL 31/12/2003 PRESUPUESTO El presupuesto del IVIC para el año fiscal 2003 fue aprobado en Gaceta Oficial extraordinaria No. 5618, de fecha 19/02/2003. El presupuesto global de ingresos y gastos, incluyendo el pasivo laboral, fue de Bs.56.691.451.503. El financiamiento real de los gastos del IVIC para este período, ver anexo 1, fue de Bs.35.999.236.077 integrado por un aporte inicial del Ejecutivo por transferencias corrientes de Bs.29.832.3700.000, quedando en definitiva como aporte Bs. 31.639.045.687 por incrementos y rebajas al aporte del Ejecutivo: rebaja de Bs. 2.983.237.000, publicada en Gaceta Oficial 37631 de fecha 13/02/03, y Bs. 4.789.912.697 como créditos adicionales para cubrir incrementos de salario mínimo, bonos decretados por el Ejecutivo y Homologación de personal de rango; Bs. 2.375.185.105 corresponden a ingresos propios; Bs. 720.390.467 por concepto de fondos externos y Bs. 1.264.614.818 corresponden a “otras fuentes de finan- ciamiento” que incluye principalmente Caja y Banco y deudores. El pasivo laboral por financiar se incrementó a Bs. 16.865.351.819. El aporte corriente del Ejecutivo representó un incremento de 20% sobre el aporte co- rrespondiente al año 2002; además al cierre del año fiscal, 31/12/2003, se recibieron todos los aportes co- rrientes programados para ese año. El incremento en el aporte del Ejecutivo se utilizó para financiar básica- mente incrementos de sueldos y salarios, no fue posible incrementar los aportes para gastos directos de inves- tigación para compensar la inflación y el incremento de precios derivados del control de cambio de insumos importados adquiridos en el País. Al igual que para el año anterior, el bajo ingreso por fondos externos es sola- mente contable ya que los fondos recibidos por FONACIT, fueron ingresados a cuentas separadas y fueron administrados directamente por los receptores a través de una unidad de apoyo administrativo. Un análisis superficial indica que la proporción de los gastos de acuerdo a las cifras contenidas
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