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From left to right. Mrs. Angela Nieto Toledano, Trustee of the Francisco Cobos Foundation (FFC); Mr. Carlos Closa, Vice-President for Organisation and Institutional Relations of the CSIC; Mr. Santiago Durán García, Jury of the 18th Fco Cobos Award; Mr. Vicente Larraga Rodríguez de Vera, President of the FFC; Mrs. Maria Vallet Regí, 18th Fco Cobos Award; Mr. José López Barneo, 18th Fco Cobos Award; Mrs. Pilar S. Testillano, Director of the CIB Margarita Salas; Miguel García Guerrero, Trustee of the FFC; Mrs. Patricia Muñoz García, speaker at the Award Ceremony; Mr. Emilio Bouza Santiago, Trustee of the FFC and Mr. Mariano Barbacid Montalban, Jury of the 18th Fco Cobos Award.
14 Nov 2024
The award ceremony for the 18th Francisco Cobos Foundation Prize was held at the CIB Margarita Salas
On Wednesday 30 October 2024, the 18th Francisco Cobos Scientific Career Award ceremony was held in the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research (CSIC) Assembly Hall. The €50,000 prize was awarded to Professors María Vallet Regí and José López Barneo.
Prof. María Vallet Regí received the award for being a pioneer in the field of mesoporous ceramic materials with applications in biomedicine, discovering, for the first time, the potential biomedical applications of these materials, particularly in the field of bone regeneration and as controlled drug release systems with a proven impact on the development of therapeutic applications.
Prof. José López Barneo is a pioneer of electrophysiology and has discovered and characterized carotid body cells as oxygen pressure sensors. He also carries out important translational activity, reflected in his studies on Parkinson's disease.
During the award ceremony, the conference entitled ‘Nosocomial infection in Spain and the misuse of antimicrobials’ was given by Prof. Patricia Muñoz García, Professor of the Department of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid and Head of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Service at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital.
The Jury that awarded the prize in this edition was made up of Prof. Vicente Larraga Rodríguez de Vera, president of the Francisco Cobos Foundation, Prof. Eloísa del Pino Matute, president of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and Professors Joaquín Arenas, Jesús Ávila, Mariano Barbacid, Luis Blanco, Santiago Durán, Miguel García Guerrero and Isidre Vilacosta.
The award ceremony was attended by Carlos Closa, Vice-President of Organization and Institutional Relations of the CSIC; Pilar S. Testillano, Director of the CIB Margarita Salas; Vicente Larraga Rodríguez de Vera, President of the Francisco Cobos Foundation; Angela Nieto Toledano, Miguel García Guerrero and Emilio Bouza Santiago, Trustees of this Foundation; and Mariano Barbacid Montalbán and Santiago Durán García, jurors of the 18th Francisco Cobos Award.