Human genome and astrophysics research wins National Prizes
Recipient dedicates award to women and hopes children can imagine scientists not only as “old, white men”, but also as “young women in miniskirts”
The Catalan expert on bioinformatics Roderic Guigó and his investigations on the human genome have won this year’s National Prize for Research, awarded by the Catalan government.
In an event held on Monday evening, the Italian doctor of astrophysics Nanda Rea won an award for young talents, and defended the presence of women in science.
Science “better in democratic nations”
Guigó, leading a research team developing software to predict genes and noting down genome sequences in Barcelona’s Center for Genomic Regulation, aims to better understand the human genome.
He has spent years doing research in the United States and his work has contributed to interpret the information in the genome, and in turn to start using this information.
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