Amparo Latorre Castillo, national award 2025 in the Sociedad Española de Genética
- Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit
- July 4th, 2025
Amparo Latorre
The Sociedad Española de Genética (SEG) has given the Genetics national awards 2025 to the full-time university professor Amparo Latorre Castillo, in the Basic Genetics modality, and to the researcher from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) Miguel Torres, in the modality of Applied Genetics. These awards recognise the research trajectory that has contributed decisively in the advance of genetic knowledge in Spain.
The delivery ceremony will take place next Tuesday 8th July, at 7:30pm, in Cartagena, during the inaugural act of the 44th Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Genética (SEG2025). The event will count with the institutional presence of Isabel Durán, in representation of the Pryconsa Foundation, sponsoring entity of the awards. The ceremony can be followed live through the YouTube channel of the SEG: https://png2025.segenetica.es
Amparo Latorre Castillo is a full-time university professor on Genetics in the Universitat de València and she has developed her research career in the Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva (ICBiBe) and in the Institut de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SysBio, UV-CSIC). She has also developed her research in the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Community (FISABIO) and in the CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBEResp). Her lines of research have centred, on the one hand, in the variability of mitochondrial DNA and its application in phylogenetic analysis, and on the other hand, in the symbiosis of bacteria and eukaryotes, with key contributions in compared genomic, genome evolution, and insects and humans intestinal microbiota. She has published more than 250 scientific articles with more than 15.000 citations.
She has been visiting professor in international universities such as the University of California (Irvine and Davis) and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She has been in work posts of great responsibility in scientific committees, such as the National Museum of Natural History of Paris or the Instituto Nacional de Ecología de México, in committees of experts such as the City of Arts and Sciences, and national and international evaluation agencies. In the Univesitat de València she has been director in the Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva and, also, Vice-Dean and secretary in the Faculty of Biologic Sciences.
Miguel Torres is a senior researcher and coordinator in the Programa de Regeneración Cardiovascular in the CNIC. Her career has centred in the genetic of development and regeneration, with special emphasis in the training and reparation of organs, as well as the control mechanisms of cellular quality. After her training in the Complutense University of Madrid and the Instituto Max Planck de Química Biofísica, she founded her own Research Group in the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB) before moving to the CNIC. Her works have proportionated innovative models about regeneration and tissue quality, being pioneer in the discovery of the endogenic Cellular Competition in vertebrates. She is member of the EMBO and ACAL, and she has published more than 130 scientific articles with close to 14.000 citations.
