The prize recognises the research work of Trepat, ICREA Research Professor at IBEC. These awards, presented by the Valencian Foundation Rei Jaume I Awards, aim to bring science and business closer together in order to promote research, scientific development and entrepreneurship in Spain.
This week, the juries selected the winners of the seven categories in which the prizes awarded by the Valencian Foundation Rei Jaume I Awards are divided. Among the winners of this 36th edition is Xavier Trepat, ICREA research professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and professor at the University of Barcelona (UB), who received the award in the Biomedical Research category.
These awards, which aim to bring science and business closer together in order to promote research, scientific development and entrepreneurship in Spain, recognise people whose work is of great importance and has largely been developed in the country. The winners receive a cash prize of 100,000 euros with the commitment to reinvest part of it in research and entrepreneurship in Spain.
The award recognises the research work of Trepat, principal investigator of IBEC’s Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group, whose efforts aim to understand how cells and tissues grow, invade, move and regenerate in a wide range of physiological and pathophysiological processes.
The Rei Jaume I Awards were announced on 4 June in a formal ceremony at the Palau de la Generalitat, presided over by the President of the Consell, Carlos Mazón, and attended by the Executive President, Javier Quesada, and the President of the Rei Jaume I Awards Foundation, Vicente Boluda. The event was attended by the board of trustees of the Fundación Valenciana Premios Rei Jaume I, the juries of the seven prizes and representatives of the collaborators.
The other winners were Antonio Acín in the Basic Research category, Francisco Pérez in the Economic Sciences category, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano in the Environment category, Luis Serrano in the New Technologies category, Victor Amarnani in the Entrepreneurship category and Jordi Sunyer in the Clinical Research and Public Health category.
The official presentation of the Rei Jaume I Awards will take place in November at a ceremony in the Lonja de los Mercaderes in Valencia.
