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Inés Mármol, researcher at IIS Aragón, and the Bioengineering, Signal and Communication research group (BSICoS, from IIS Aragón, I3A from Unizar and Red Ciber) received two distinctions for their work yesterday at the Third Millennium Awards gala.
The Third Millennium Awards already have winners, chosen from all the candidates presented. The jury of this ninth edition convened by HERALDO was made up of Pilar Gayán, general director of Science and Research of the Government of Aragon; Francisco Javier Rubio, director of Araid; Luis Oro, researcher at the Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (CSIC-University of Zaragoza); Francisco Rojas, responsible for Technological Missions and Communication to Society at Itainnova; Sabina Scarpellini, researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the University of Zaragoza-Energaia; Antonio Novo, managing director of IDiA-Research, Development and Innovation in Aragon; and Pilar Perla, coordinator of Tercer Milenio. Precisely these awards were presented this Monday, December 4, in an event sponsored by Fersa, Government of Aragon, Itainnova, Ariño Douglass, Sesé and Avanza.
This act of delivery of the Third Millennium Awards has brought together the protagonists of the Aragonese R&D&i fabric. The Espacio Fersa in Plaza has been the scene of a gala in which the talent of young researchers, the transfer of knowledge to the company, the dissemination of science to society and brilliant research and innovation projects have been recognized.
Accesit: Inés Mármol Peguero
Inés Mármol Peguero (Zaragoza, 1993), a young researcher in biomedicine, was born and trained in Aragon. Since January of this year, thanks to a Juan de la Cierva-Training contract, she was able to return to develop her professional work in the Tissue Microenvironment group of Unizar and the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), the work center main of it. She specializes in cancer biology, in the study of the effect of antitumor agents on the cancer cell. He is the 2023 National Youth Award in the Science and Technology category; and Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination 2022 in the Young Popularizer category.
Second prize: Echoes, new methods to measure the activity of the central nervous system in humans in a minimally invasive way
The research group in Bioengineering, Signal and Communication (BSICoS, from the I3A of Unizar, IIS Aragón and Ciber network), directed by Esther Pueyo Paules, investigates a technology that addresses the challenge of measuring neuronal activity in living beings. Funded by an ERC Starting Grant, it involves a novel strategy: instead of trying to directly record brain activity, they seek to extract information from the nervous system from the electric fields generated by moving muscles.
Photographer: FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ, HERALD OF ARAGON
