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MARIANO BARBACID MONTALBÁN. Received a doctorate in Biochemistry from Madrid’s Complutense University in 1974. He is a member of various scientific advisory boards and editorial boards of scientific magazines. The importance of his work has been recognised on many occasions; among them are the Distinguished Young Scientist Award (Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1983), the Rey Juan Carlos I Award (Spain, 1984), the Rhodes Memorial Award from the American Association on Cancer Research (USA, 1986), the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Cancer Prize, which he received together with Klaus Rajewsky in 2005, in Switzerland. He also received the XXXIV Fundación Jiménez Díaz Prize in 2002. Since 1984 he has been a research professor at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) (on extended leave of absence). He is a Doctor Honoris Causa at the Menendez Pelayo International University (1995) and has been an EMBO member since 1996. In 1998 he set up the National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid and is its director. He currently combines this position with research at the Experimental Cancer Group, of which he is head, and whose work focuses on the study of the role of regulators in in vivo cell cycles and the design of new models of animal cancer generated by genetic modification technology. |