Salvador Arias Santiago awarded at the Salud Investiga 2012 Awards in the 'Young' category
The researcher at the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada, Mr. Salvador Arias Santiago, has been awarded at the Salud Investiga Awards 2012 in the “Young” category.
For the first time, the award for this modality has been shared between two researchers. Salvador Arias-Santiago Physician specialist in the area of Medical-Surgical Dermatology and Veneorology at the General Hospital of Baza. At the age of 30, he already has an outstanding scientific career and, proof of this, are the almost 30 original articles published in different prestigious scientific journals. His research work, always focused on the patient and with great clinical applicability, focuses on psoriasis, androgenetic alopecia and skin cancer. In addition, and in collaboration with the Tissue Engineering group of the University of Granada, Arias develops a line of research aimed at improving the characteristics of artificial skin to be used in patients with serious dermatological diseases. Arias Santiago develops his scientific work under a Río Hortega research contract from the Carlos III Health Institute co-financed by the Foundation for Research in Biomedicine of Eastern Andalusia -Alejandro Otero- (Fibao).
On the other hand, the Granada researcher Jose Luis Garcia-Perez also share this award. His line of research, with a translational approach, focuses on knowing the biology of a specific element of DNA, called Line-1, whose mobility is related to diseases such as cancer, hemophilia or muscular dystrophy, among others. Their studies reveal the implications of these little-known mobile elements and their impact on the human genome. His scientific career has earned him one of the most outstanding awards in the scientific world, the International Early Career Scientist 2011 award granted by the American institution Howard Hughes Medical Institute to only 28 scientists from around the world out of 760 candidates. García-Pérez develops his work at the Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Government of Genomics and Oncology Research Center, Genyo. He has participated in more than a dozen research projects and has published numerous publications in prestigious international impact factor journals such as Nature, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stem Cells, Human Molecular Genetic or PNAS, among others.
