Ana Paredes receives the Lilly Foundation Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2024

Ana Paredes García, predoctoral researcher in Dr. Mercedes Ricote’s group (CNIC), has received the first prize from the Lilly Foundation for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, for her thesis: “Understanding the role of Retinoid X Receptors in cardiac homeostasis: from transcription to physiology”, carried out in the Nuclear Receptor Signaling laboratory of the Carlos III National Cardiovascular Research Center Foundation (CNIC) in Madrid.

The jury, formed by the Admissions Commission of the SEBBM, has awarded a first prize and two second prizes in the IV Edition of the Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology sponsored by the Lilly Foundation, in recognition of the initiation work to the research career.

The two second prizes went to Elena Moreno Jiménez for the thesis “Adult hippocampal neurogenesis process in the human species. Alteration of the integration of new granule neurons in pathological conditions” carried out at the “Severo Ochoa” Molecular Biology Center (CSIC-UAM) in Madrid and for María Crespo Ruiz-Cabello for the thesis “The role of immune system in liver pathophysiology” , carried out at the Carlos III National Cardiovascular Research Center (CNIC), Madrid.

The awards ceremony will take place on September 6, 2024, from 12:40-1:15 p.m., in the Gaviota Auditorium of the A Coruña Congress Palace, Palexco, within the framework of the 46th SEBBM Congress.