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Spain stands in biomedicine

The creation of Molecular Biology Center promoted by the Nobel Severo Ochoa was a breakthrough

The good level of achievement Spain in biomedical research can not be explained without the figure of Severo Ochoa and the Nobel Prize he won in 1959, according to scientists all agree that English half-century later have made aid biomedical research senior European Research Council (ERC). In physics and engineering, by contrast, has not been a similar figure. Although there are English physicists who enjoy high international prestige - especially in the field of theoretical physics, rather than experimentally, the lack of a physical Ochoa explains the English science is not as competitive in these areas like biomedicine. "The creation of the Center for Molecular Biology powered by Ochoa was a breakthrough," says Luis Serrano, the Centre for Genomic Regulation. There landfall pioneering figures of molecular biology in Spain and Margarita Salas, Antonio García Bellido and Federico Mayor Zaragoza and trained a generation of researchers and Ginés Morata and Jesus Avila, who in turn have encouraged the emergence of the next generation. Highlighted in particular the case of Mariano Barbacid - the same generation as Avila and Morata, who, on his return from the United States, prompted the National Research Center (CNIO), which now has 48 research groups. ...

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