María Moros receives the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Young Researcher Award in the category Group Leader
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) awards the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader to Dr. María Moros Caballero, CSIC researcher at the Aragon Nanoscience and Materials Institute (INMA), a joint institute of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza. With this award, the RESQ wishes to recognise María Moros for her trajectory as leader of a new research group.
María Moros graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Navarra (2003) and later in Biochemistry at the University of Zaragoza (2011). She completed her doctoral thesis at the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (Zaragoza) in the area of nanomedicine (2012).
In September 2015, she was awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (CNR) in Naples (Italy) to start a project involving the use of an invertebrate model animal (Hydra vulgaris) to study the toxicity and function of different nanoparticles. This animal is a great model for tissue regeneration, as it can regenerate completely in two animals if it is cut in two.
Since 2018 he has been developing his scientific career at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, first as Juan de la Cierva, then as Ramón y Cajal and finally as a CSIC Senior Scientist.
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) awards the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader to Dr. María Moros Caballero, CSIC researcher at the Aragon Nanoscience and Materials Institute (INMA), a joint institute of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza. With this award, the RESQ wishes to recognise María Moros for her trajectory as leader of a new research group.
María Moros graduated in Pharmacy at the University of Navarra (2003) and later in Biochemistry at the University of Zaragoza (2011). She completed her doctoral thesis at the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón (Zaragoza) in the area of nanomedicine (2012).
In September 2015, she was awarded a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (CNR) in Naples (Italy) to start a project involving the use of an invertebrate model animal (Hydra vulgaris) to study the toxicity and function of different nanoparticles. This animal is a great model for tissue regeneration, as it can regenerate completely in two animals if it is cut in two.
Since 2018 he has been developing his scientific career at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, first as Juan de la Cierva, then as Ramón y Cajal and finally as a CSIC Senior Scientist.
In 2020 she started leading the ERC Starting grant project SIROCCO, funded by the European Research Council with about €1.8 million to develop nanoparticles that are able to stimulate cellular mechanoreceptors in a precise manner. She is also the principal investigator of a national and a European project (Nano4Zombie) for tissue repair together with research groups from Latvia and Poland.
Since 2020 she leads a multidisciplinary research group composed of 7 researchers. Her research work focuses mainly on the synthesis and functionalisation of nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
In addition to María Moros in the call for this 2024 edition, have been awarded as in the category YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD – “Group Leader” modality to:
- Alicia Casitas Montero, Philipps University of Marburg
- María Cuartero Botia, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia / Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
- Sergio García Segura, Arizona State University.
30-04-2024
