Our history is linked to the production of the interferon production in Cuba and the development of the Biological Research Center in Havana, organization from which the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology has born. 

In 1981 a new challenge appeared for the Cuban science, scientists must start quickly the development of the Biotechnology, to develop the techniques that were been developing in the biotechnology field to offer to the people a new generation of drugs and medicines

Initially a small number of researchers worked very hard to establish the production of the leukocyte Interferon for first time in Cuba. In only few weeks the first batch of interferon comes from an adapted lab in a small house. The interferon obtained there was successfully used in a Hemorrhagic Dengue type II outbreak and Hemorrhagic conjunctivitis that affected our population.

In 1982 the Center of Biological Research (CIB) was opened with the aim of scale up the production of the leukocyte interferon, and in parallel the researchers were training in the genetic engineering techniques to clone and produce the recombinant interferon, for making possible to cover all the national demand and to start exporting.

In 1983 the goal was successfully reached and Cuba had placed among the first five countries that were able to use these new biotechnology techniques to produce recombinant medicines. New and ambitious projects emerge every days then an expansion was needed.