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Ana Briones Alonso
Ana María Briones Alonso (born 1972) is a Spanish scientist in the field of medicine, and investigates the causes and mechanisms involved in cardiovascular illness and arterial hypertension. Life Ana Briones was born in Madrid, Spain. In her later career, she developed her investigation in the department of pharmacology and therapeutic of the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she analyses the medicines for use in treatment to evaluate efficacy, with other possible drugs. She is part of the research group directed by Doctor Mercedes Salaices, chair of the pharmacology department of the Autonomous University of Madrid and directs the physiology and vascular pharmacology research group of the Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz (IdiPAZ), as well as academic correspondent of the Royal Academy National of Pharmacy (RANF), constituted by researchers situated in the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, in the University Hospital in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomous University Of Madrid
The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Barcelona. UAM is widely respected as one of the most prestigious universities in Europe. According to the highly regarded QS World University Rankings 2022, UAM is ranked as the top university in Spain. The campus of the university spans a rural tract of , mostly around metropolitan Madrid. Founded in 1968, its main campus, Cantoblanco, is located near the cities of Alcobendas, San Sebastián de los Reyes and Tres Cantos. UAM's Cantoblanco Campus holds most of the university's facilities. It is located north of Madrid and has an extension of over . Of these, nearly are urbanised and about a third of them garden areas. UAM offers 94 doctorate programs in all of the universities studies. It also offers 88 master' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Juan Carlos University
Rey Juan Carlos University ( es, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, URJC) is a Spanish public research university located in the southern area of the Community of Madrid (Spain), with five campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro, Aranjuez and Fuenlabrada. It is named after former king Juan Carlos I of Spain and has the Latin motto ''Non nova, sed nove'' ("Not new things, but in a new way"). It was established in 1996 by the government of the Community of Madrid. With 44.916 students, it is the second-biggest public university in the Community of Madrid, behind the historical Universidad Complutense. URJC is one of eight universities in the Community of Madrid, and it is the second-newest university in the community. Studies King Juan Carlos University offers a range of degrees, all adapted to the European Higher Education Area. This includes 64 undergraduate degrees, 44 dual degrees, 6 English-medium degrees, 6 university degrees on-line, 18 diplomas, and 8 engineering degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Lastres Becker
Isabel Ballasts Becker (born 1974) is a German-Spanish scientist and chemist on the faculty of biochemistry in the medical department at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Life She graduated in chemical sciences, specialising in biochemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her work centres on the molecular basis of several neurodegenerative illnesses, like Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. In her project, she studies the cause of neuron death in Parkinson's, and experiments with drugs to delay the advance of the illness. Awards Her work as a researcher has been recognised by the scientific community and she has received prizes like the Scientific Achievement Award or the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. In November 2010, she was awarded, with four scientists ( María Antonia Herrero, Ana Briones Alonso, Mercedes Vila and Elena Ramírez Parra), the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, with an endowm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Ramírez Parra
Elena Ramírez Parra (born 1972) is a Spanish botanist and researcher who studies the negative effects of environmental stress (drought, salinity of the soil, excess radiation, presence of heavy metals and the high and low temperatures) on plant growth. Applications of her research include improving harvest yield. In 2010, Ramírez won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. Life Ramírez studied biological sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid and a doctorate in molecular biology from the same university (2000). Ramírez is a published scholar of botany. She became a senior researcher at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, CBGP) of the National Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), studying the negative effects that produce environmental stress in plants. Her investigation characterises the mechanisms that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Vila
Mercedes Vila Juárez (born 1975) is a Spanish material science researcher. She is the chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of BioTech Foods SL. Path Mercedes Vila Juárez Vila was born in Madrid, Spain. graduated in Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid with a doctorate in Materials Physics, in December 2003. She did five years of international post-doctoral experience, funded by a Marie Curie Intra-European fellowship and several national programs of investigation, to develop biomaterials surfaces using physical and chemical methods. In 2008, she incorporated as a Ramón y Cajal Investigator at the faculty of Pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid, in one of the most prestigious European groups of Nanomedice and regenerative Tissue engineering, with the funding of an ERG-Marie Curie Action grant (2008–2010). During this period, she developed materials for the reconstruction of the loss of bone mass, with what promised to improve the qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Antonia Herrero
María Antonia Herrero (born 1978) is a chemist who works in the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM) in Ciudad Real. Her work focuses on chemical nanomaterials, with research undertaken at the same university. Life Herrero began her doctorate in 2000, on microwaves and Sustainable Chemistry Group of the University of Castilla–La Mancha, working in aided by organic reactions microwaves. Part of her thesis was done in Uppsala, Sweden after which she earned her doctorate in 2006. Research Her work centres on the study of the applications of nanomaterials, specifically nanotubes, that can be modified for distinct uses in such diverse fields as medicine (e.g. as conveyors of drugs to treat illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's disease). After she joined the nano-chemistry group at UCLM, her research focused on microwave radiation for the activation of carbon nanostructures in solvent-free conditions, developing multifunctional synthetic ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Female Scientists In The 21st Century
This is a list of notable women scientists active in the 21st century. Albania *Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962), Albanian physicist * Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmology and theoretical physicist *Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj (1948–2017), Albanian physicist Argentina *Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (born 1954), urban anthropologist studying poverty * Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini (born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist * Constanza Ceruti (born 1973), Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist * Rachel Chan (graduated 1988), led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina * Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist Armenia *Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born 1928), botanist and mycologist; major contributor to knowledge of the flora of her native Armenia *Ninet Sinaii, epidemiologist Australia *Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development *Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Spanish Inventors And Discoverers
This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories. A * José de Acosta (1540–1600), one of the first naturalists and anthropologists of the Americas. *Andrés Alcázar (1490-1585), neurosurgeon and anatomist, designed new tools for surgical treatments. * José María Algué (1856–1930), meteorologist, inventor of the barocyclometer, the nephoscope, and the microseismograph. * José Antonio de Artigas Sanz (b. 1887), created luminescence with noble gases. * Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont (1553–1613), registered a design for a steam-powered water pump for use in mines. * José Luis Ayuso Fernández (1897-1992), inventor, engineer, mechanic, electrician and cinematographic projectionist. He was a pioneer in sound film industry, inventing one of the first systems to synchronize sound and video in films. B * Ignacio Barraquer (1884–1965), leading ophthalmologist, pion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Births
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908 in science#Astronomy, 1908). Events January * January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations. * January 4 - The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). * January 7 – Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. * January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. * January 10 – Independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. * January 11 – Sheik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Madrid
This article is a list of notable people from Madrid, the capital of Spain: Born in Architecture and urban planning * Teodoro Ardemans (1664–1726): Spanish architect * José Benito de Churriguera (1665–1725) and Churriguera family: Spanish Baroque architects and sculptors; the highly decorated Churrigueresque style of architectural construction is named after the family * Juan de Villanueva (1739–1811): Spanish architect of Neoclassicism * Arturo Soria (1844–1920): Spanish urban planner, well known for his concept of the linear city * Antonio González Echarte (1864–1943): Spanish civil engineer; one of the creators of the Madrid Metro * Carlos Mendoza y Sáez de Argandoña (1872–1950): Spanish civil engineer; one of the creators of the Madrid Metro * Eduardo Torroja (1899–1961): Spanish structural engineer and architect Army * Pedro de Heredia (1505 – c. 1554): Spanish conquistador and founder of Cartagena de Indias * Alonso de Contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
