Dr. Marta Pardo, researcher at the Interuniversity Institute for Molecular Recognition Research and Technological Development (IDM), has been awarded in the XX Convocatoria 2024 of the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation. 
This award recognizes excellence in research projects focused on child psychiatry, neuropsychiatric disorders and neurosciences.
 

Her project, entitled “Impact of Early Stress in Adolescence: An Innovative Translational Model to Study the Effects of Exercise and the Glutamatergic Pathway in Genetically Vulnerable Individuals,” explores how early life stress influences the development of disorders such as anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The research will be carried out in collaboration with Laura López-Cruz from the Open University in the UK and Mercé Correa from the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, who are experts in stress models and animal behavior. In addition, the student Silvia Giménez will participate.

Marta Pardo has extensive experience in international research. Before returning to Spain, she worked for more than a decade at the University of Miami, where she specialized in research on depression, drug addiction and the use of transgenic rats to study stress-related disorders. He has also worked on innovative therapies such as magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENPs) for the treatment of psychiatric diseases. After receiving the prestigious Ramón y Cajal award in 2024, he established his own laboratory at the Universitat de València.