The Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain awards the doctoral thesis of a researcher directed by researchers from the ibs.GRANADA
The Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (RADE) has awarded the Juan Abelló Pascual II Research Prize 2019, to Ángeles Montilla García, PhD from the University of Granada, in recognition of her thesis "Control of opioid analgesia and tolerance by sigma-1 receptors: studies on nociceptive and inflammatory joint pain.“. His doctoral thesis was developed in the Department of Pharmacology and in the Biomedical Research Center (Institute of Neurosciences) of the UGR and was supervised by doctors Enrique José Cobos del Moral and José Manuel Baeyens Cabrera, both members of the Biomedical Research Institute of Granada (ibs.GRANADA).
The RADE Awards (in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Accounting and Business Administration, Alcalibery relatives of Dña. María José Jerez Amador de los Ríos) for the best theses published and defended by Spanish doctors in their 2019 call, were delivered at the Solemn Opening Session of the Academic Year 2019-2020, held on October 16 at the headquarters of the Academy.
Dr. Montilla-García's work focuses on the study of the modulation of the effects of opioid drugs by sigma-1 receptors in various murine pain models. The work concludes that sigma-1 receptors play a primary role in modulating analgesia and opioid tolerance. These findings could be of therapeutic interest for the use of sigma-1 antagonists as adjuvants to opioid drugs.
In this edition of the RADE Awards, 215 researches have competed, and 12 have been awarded for the eight categories called: RADE Award for Humanities, Life Sciences and Health, Legal Sciences, Technological Experimental Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, and the Juan Abelló Pascual I Awards (cannabis), Juan Abello Pascual II (pain mechanisms) and María José Jerez Amador de los Ríos (rare diseases).
It should also be noted that Ángeles Montilla García's doctoral thesis was also awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis 2019 in the field of pain by the Spanish Federation of Pain in the month of May of this year.