José Viña Ribes, full university professor of Physiology of the UV, has been awarded the Albert Struyvenberg Medal of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI) of 2017, an annually granted recognition by this society to a scientist for his outstanding achievements in the field of clinical research.
25 november 2016
Doctor Viña has focused his research on ageing and free radicals, diseases associated to ageing, such as the Alzheimer´s disease, metabolic disorders during ageing and the fragility linked to it. Nowadays, he investigates the specific genes which express the hundred-year-old people and its regulation through diet and exercise. In addition, he is the director of the Line of Research of Metabolism and Organ Damage - Ageing and associated diseases of the Fundación INCLIVA.
Professor Viña is ‘honorary doctor’ by the Université de Rennes 2 in France. He has also been named ‘honorary doctor’ by the Universidad Argentina de Buenos Aires.
The award ceremony of the Albert Struyvenberg Medal to doctor Viña is expected during the annual scientific meeting of the ESCI which will be held in Genoa (Italy) from 17 to 19 May of 2017.
About the ESCI
The ESCI was created in 1967 as a society aimed at integrating scientists and clinicians of all around Europe interested in the discovery of the diseases’ mechanisms. The ESCI is a forum for discussion, debate and encounter to promote scientific progress in clinical research. This society publishes the magazine ‘European Journal of Clinical Investigation’.
