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Abstract
Maria A Blasco obtained her PhD in 1993 for her research at the Centro de Biología Molecular ‘Severo Ochoa‘ (Madrid, Spain) under the supervision of M Salas. That same year, Blasco joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York (NY, USA) as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the leadership of CW Greider. In 1997 she returned to Spain to start her own research group at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid. She joined the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas in 2003 as Director of the Molecular Oncology Programme and Leader of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group, and was appointed Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Director in 2011. Blasco has received the Josef Steiner Cancer Research, Rey Jaime I, Körber European Science, Alberto Sols and Fundación Lilly Precilinical Research Awards, as well as the Spanish National Santiago Ramón y Cajal Research Award in Biology (2010). Blasco has also been awarded the EMBO Gold Medal and has served on its Council since 2008.
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