Delivery of the VIII National Biotechnology Award

We are pleased to invite you to the VIII National Biotechnology Award that will take place next Monday, March 29 at 12.00 at the ISDE headquarters in Madrid.

The event, which will be presented by the journalist Ángel Lafuente, will be attended by the winner, Mr. Francisco Martínez Mójica, who will collect the award from the hand of Mr. Juan José Sánchez Puig, CEO of ISDE.

With this award, Martínez Mójica, doctor, professor and professor at the University of Alicante, receives the recognition he deserves for his pioneering work in the sequences that he baptized as CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, giving rise to many and very promising lines of development. in Biotechnology.

It should be remembered that Mójica has been in the shortlist of national and international prizes such as the Princess of Asturias and the Nobel and, although so far they have resisted, precisely the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry were recognized for their work on CRISPR, based on in the investigations of the awardee.