Ginés Morata

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Ginés Morata

Prince of Asturias Prize
Scientific career
InstitutionsAutonomous University of Madrid
University of Cambridge
ThesisHerencia celular de la determinación en Drosophila (1973)
Doctoral advisorAntonio Garcia-Bellido[1]
Websitewww.cbm.uam.es/joomla-rl/index.php/en/scientific-departments?id=750

Ginés Morata Pérez ForMemRS[2] is Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain[3][1] and an expert in developmental biology of the fruit fly (Drosophila), a specialty he has worked on for over 40 years.[2][4]

Education

Morata was educated at the Universidad Laboral de Sevilla [es] and the Complutense University of Madrid. He was awarded a PhD in 1973 for research on the heredity in the fruit fly Drosophila supervised by Antonio Garcia-Bellido.[5]

Career and research

As of 2017, his research focuses on cell competition,[6][7] especially in relation to apoptosis and carcinogenesis.[8][9][10] His lab also does experimental analysis of regeneration in the imaginal discs.

Morata has been involved in several major discoveries, including the discovery of

Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) of the Medical Research Council (MRC) at the University of Cambridge with Peter Lawrence.[12][2]

Awards and honours

He has been awarded numerous honorary doctorates and prizes, including the Spanish National Prize for Research in Biology (2002), the Mexico Prize for Science and Technology (2004) and the

Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2017.[2] In 2018, he was elected a foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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References

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    PMID 17195314
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  2. ^ a b c d Anon (2017). "Professor Ginés Morata ForMemRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Ginés Morata publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. S2CID 4464450. Closed access icon
  5. ProQuest 1832950364
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  6. PMID 24096487. Closed access icon
  7. PMID 26374529
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  8. PMID 27239786
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  9. PMID 24069529. Open access icon
  10. PMID 23633961. Open access icon
  11. PMID 24755288. Open access icon
  12. S2CID 4299506. Closed access icon
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