After completing his participation in the cardiovascular Conference organized by the American Heart Association in Boston, director of ACCDiS, Sergio Lavandero, accepted the invitation formulated by the Centre for research in the school of medicine of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. There, dictó el seminario “New insights in the non-canonical renin-angiotensin-system (RAS)”, In addition to participating in various meetings with the objective of the Center and to evaluate possible research joint with professors and researchers of the school.

Subsequently, Dr. Lavandero gave a lecture entitled "Organellar communication in the heart" in Seminar Series on Obesity, Metabolism and Diabetes organized by the Touchstone Diabetes Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, institution of which Dr. Lavandero is Adjunct Professor.