Maria Antonia Blasco

By Maider Martínez

  • HIS BIRTH

    HIS BIRTH
    She was born in Alicante in 1965

  • GRADUATION

    GRADUATION
    in Biological Sciences from the University of Valencia

  • UNIVERSITY

    UNIVERSITY
    received her PhD in Biochemistry and
    Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid

  • RNA

    RNA
    He focused on the identification of the RNA component of telomerase and very soon he was in the first line of research with the publication of an article in Science
  • Period: to

    WENT TO USA

    moved to take up a position as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Carol Greider's lab at Cold Spring Harbor.
    Dr. Carol Greider's laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA.
    Laboratory, NY, USA

  • INVESTIGATION

    INVESTIGATION
    When he began his
    Research career as group leader and CSIC scientist in the
    Department of Immunology and Oncology, National Center for Biotechnology

  • JOB

    JOB
    he joined the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO),
    then under the direction of Dr. Mariano Barbacid, as responsible for the
    Telomeres and Telomerase Group

  • ITS FOUNDATION

    ITS FOUNDATION
    is also founder of the biotechnology company Life Length
    together with the Marcelino Botín Foundation and the consulting firm Matlin Associates. Life
    Length, created in September 2010,

  • WHEN SHE WAS DIRECTOR

    WHEN SHE WAS DIRECTOR
    she became the director of the CNIO, in
    replacement of Mariano Barbacid.

  • PRIZE

    PRIZE
    Selected for the first "Spanish Science Selection"

  • SHE INCLUSION

    SHE INCLUSION
    it was included in the Periodic Table of Women Scientists to commemorate

  • PRIZE

    PRIZE
    Optimistic Award Committed to Science awarded by the journal
    Last Night I Had a Dream