RiojaPrince of Asturias

For whom this monograph was an honor to share a table and tablecloth with Professor Ginés Morata Pérez, one of the most brilliant scientists in current Spain in the area of biological, biomedical and geneticist sciences.It happened after the delivery gala at the Master Padilla of the Diario de Almería Award (in its 2nd edition) to "an exemplary life".Accompanied by his wife, Rosario Martínez, on the night of November 3, 2014, laurels shared with Nerea Camacho, Juana LaHousse and the Nazareth House.The next day I greeted him at Casa Puga, who is usually going to the capital after visiting the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, which he feels in love.Brushstrokes that evidence an almergens that do not stop proclaiming inside and outside the country in any talk, conference or convention-.

Entrezahares and El Andarax

The bull of Osborne, at the exit of Benahadux, announces the bridge of ten "eyes" on the bed of the Andarax that takes us to Rioja, where the prince of Asturias of scientific and technical research in 2007 are originally part of the ancestors in 2007,The highest award awarded to an Almeria.Favorite son and preacher of the patron saint festivities of the Virgen del Rosario, salutation in which he came to light reminders of childhood and adolescence: “From the hand of my grandfather, the unforgettable Don José the apothecary (which helped to be born to generations of Riojans) I toured all the neighborhoods ”cited in detail, he reviewed with a multitude of people and characters from his time.A mutual affection of the town towards his family, especially his mother, who died at the beginning of the millennium.Proclamation sense topped with sincere words:.And corresponded, as proof, for example, of the older day center that bears his name.The same that distinguishes a public school from the capital.

On the left margin of the old CTA.N-340 is striking a solid representative house of the bourgeois rural architecture: Cortijo Piqueras or Casa Rosa, built in 1870 by the Uveros exporters Francisco and Joaquín Piqueras.I quote her because her orchard was also a place of running from the horny kid to be thoughtful.Thus he evoked his interest and curiosity in nature:

“As a child I always liked to observe animals and especially birds.When I was a child, in Almería, it spent many hours on the beaches looking at the seagulls and other sea birds.I also liked looking for lizards, which had very beautiful blue and orange colors.It was this type of hobbies that led me to study biology at the university.When I finished the race I met a very good researcher, Antonio García-Bellido, with whom I started working in development biology, the discipline that studies how the body of animals forms ”.

Rumbo to a laboratory

Second of a large family, he was born on April 19, 1945 in Rioja and grew up in No. 28 of the capital of El Pueblo street (his father was censored as a traffic guard), studying basic studies at the Diocesan College and Baccalaureate -equally scholarship- at the work university of Seville.Already in Madrid, in 1968 he obtained a degree in Biological Sciences at the Complutense, doctorate in 1973.As the Laudatio read when he received his first Honoris Causa, at the University of Alcalá de Henares, with the aforementioned García Bellido, he began to be interested in the development processes in the vinegar flies (Drosophila Melanogaster), fundamental in theKnowledge of embryonic mutations and alterations in certain cancer cells, the basis of its cum laude doctoral thesis.

His brilliant career is not limited to Spain, running by accredited research centers in England, the US, France, Mexico or Switzerland.An extraordinary curriculum that we substantiate here in addition to the merits already reviewed:

-Vicedirector of the Molecular Biology Center "Severo Ochoa"

-Premio of the Spanish Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and the National Research "Santiago Ramón y Cajal"

-Imbro of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States-Medalla de Andalucía in 2003

-On honoris cause for the UAL in 2008.His social advice granted him in 2021 the award, etc..

In June 2020 he was one of the three drivers of the candidacy for the Prince of Asturias of Concord for Spanish health personnel, in recognition of his bold health effort against COVID-19 who has hit us with unusual virulence he has hit us since he made his appearance.