Carlos Simón, professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Universitat, has been awarded by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in recognition of his research career. Carlos Simón is the first European who holds this award in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Only twelve researchers in human reproduction around the world have been awarded with the ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award.
The research career of professor Carlos Simón has been recognised during the opening ceremony of the 72nd Annual Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), which is being held these days in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), in which the ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award has been awarded. It is an honorary prize only held so far by eleven more researchers in the area of reproduction. From now on, professor Simón is the first European in this select group.
His pioneer contributions, basic and clinical, in the area of reproductive medicine and his fundamental contributions have helped in the development of this branch of medicine. In addition, they have helped all the specialists around the world to improve their results so as to achieve the dream of all the couples that want to conceive but are unable to do it: to have a healthy child at home. All of this has been decisive for the proposal of professor Simón for the award of ASMR.
Professor Simón, whose scientific career has been based on the approach of unsolved clinically relevant matters by looking for solutions in new technologies, is today one of the main experts in the human endometrium. More than a score of prizes guarantee his scientific career, half of them international.
‘It is a real honour for me, as a clinical researcher and scientist, to be recognised by the ASRM, one of the most relevant societies for reproductive medicine in the world. I feel proud of being part of this short list of pioneers’, commented professor Simón after receiving this distinction by the president of the ASMR, ‘this award is also for all my team’, added he.
The ASRM Distinguished Researcher Award recognises the work of all the members of the society that have stood out with their contributions to basic or clinical research in reproduction during the last 10 years. The ASMR grants this award to all the investigators that show a constant commitment, and in the long term, an advance in the research of the reproductive sciences, as well as in the education of the future researchers on this area.
Carlos Simón
Born in Valencia (Buñol, 1961), professor Carlos Simón is a medical specialist and professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Universitat de València and professor at the University of Stanford and at the Baylor College of Medicine, USA.
Since 1991, he has contributed, with his pioneer works, to the investigation and clinical solution of the problems that lead to infertility. Using the technology of microarrays, professor Simón identified the transcriptomical signature of the genes involved in the receptivity of the human endometrium, publishing his discoveries in 20 works, being the first one of them the most quoted of the Molecular Human Reproduction magazine.
The clinical transfer of his results led to the patent of the creation of a customised array named Endometrial Receptivity Array (ERA), created for the molecular diagnose of the receptivity of the endometrium in infertile patients (Fertil Steril, 2011). These days the ASMR has proved it to be successful with pregnancy rates of 85%. Professor Simón is also the creator of a freely accessible data base on the receptivity of the endometrium managed by the Universitat de València.
The scientific impact of his work is reflected in the production of 384 articles which have been published in international magazines, which make an accumulated impact factor of 1.667,545. His works have received 12,754 quotes with an average of 34 quotes per article. His rate h is 65 and he is the editor of 18 books published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and 20 monographic notebooks. This makes him one of the most prolific Spanish scientists in the world.
As an inventor, his research has led to 16 patents, 15 international and 1 national, all of them of biotechnological products.
Professor Simón has both national and international prestige and has been awarded numerous prizes, such as the Jaime I of Clinical Research in 2011.
Last update: 21 de october de 2016 13:12.
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