The Banco Sabadell Foundation awards researchers Alberto García-Basteiro and Sílvia Osuna
The study to develop new innovative treatments and vaccines to curb tuberculosis, and the computational design of enzymes have been distinguished this year with the awards for Biomedical Research and for Sciences and Engineering
To make visible and promote young talent in scientific research. With this objective, the Banco Sabadell Foundation annually awards prizes for Biomedical Research and for Sciences and Engineering. These awards, for two decades, recognize the trajectory of young scientists to project their careers and give visibility to research that, despite advancing society and science, is rarely known beyond laboratories.
"These awards make it possible to visualize and give a boost to the careers of scientists in the initial stages of their careers andrecognize exemplary lines of research that respond to some of the challenges we have as a society,"has expressed the president of the bank and of the Sabadell foundation, Josep Oliu. This year, the associate research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) - Hospital Clínic, Alberto García-Basteiro has been awarded the XX Biomedical Research Prize. The jury, chaired by Dr. Óscar Marín, has recognized the scientist's commitment to the development of new methods to differentiate the different stages of tuberculosis, as well as his contribution toadvance of diagnostic tools, treatments, and innovative vaccines against this disease, which still causes 1.25 million deaths annually worldwide.The researcher Alberto García-Basteiro, awarded the XX Prize for Biomedical Research. A graduate in Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela, García-Basteiro is currently the coordinator of the tuberculosis research area at the Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), in Mozambique, and leads several international studies to advance towards new diagnostics and vaccines against this lethal disease. The award has also recognized his essential work in vulnerable contexts, as his research focuses on children and people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona, Sílvia Osuna, has been recognized with the IX Prize for Sciences and Engineering. The jury, chaired by Dr. Lluís Torner, highlighted Osuna's contribution to the computational design of enzymes, a fundamental tool to accelerate chemical reactions through computation and thus reduce the number of necessary clinical trials.The researcher Sílvia Osuna, winner of the IX Award for Sciences and Engineering. A Doctor in Chemistry from the University of Girona, in 2010 she moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she began to specialize in the computational design of enzymes. From her research group, they are developing new computational tools to predict which mutations are necessary in the structure of enzymes to allow a new function within the human body. The Banco Sabadell Foundation has been awarding these prizes for two decades as part of its commitment to promoting scientific research. Throughout its editions, these awards ---along with others also promoted by the entity such as the award for Sciences and Engineering, for Economic Research and for Marine Sustainability--- have distinguished the careers of some fifty scientists.In fact, the Biomedical Research award celebrates its 20th edition this year. To commemorate this anniversary and review all the awardees, the Foundation has also launched the cycleConversations with Science, orin the dialogues between the awarded scientists throughout the 20 editions of this distinction to address, together, some of the great challenges of current biomedicine.
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