The Ateneo de Davao University’s Internationalization for Mindanao Office, in partnership with the Anthropology Department, hosted an International Learning Session on the research, “Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years?” by Dr. Maximilian Larena last 02 June 2021. The resource speaker, Dr. Maximilian Larena, is a Principal Investigator of the Larena Lab, Human Evolution Program, in the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is an esteemed alumnus of the Ateneo de Davao University who graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 2001. The learning session discussed the latest findings on Filipino origins and demographic history through the lens of genetics and migration.
This study has been extensively reviewed by the following independent organizations: Regional Ethics Review Board of Uppsala, Sweden; the Nature Journal; the Uppsala University Board for Investigation of Deviations from Good Research Practice; and the Ethics Review Appeals Board of Sweden. This has also been further endorsed by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) of the Philippines by then Chairperson Felipe Mendoza de Leon Jr., as well as fulfilling the regulations of UNESCO International Declaration on Human Genetic Data.