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Born in Alhama de Murcia on February 4, 1985, Sonia guila Martnez studied at the Prince of Spain school and, later, at the IES Miguel Hernndez.
After obtaining a degree in Biology in 2009 from the University of Murcia and carrying out master's studies in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, he obtained a 4-year Research Fellowship (FPI) grant funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.
In this period, his research focused on an important anticoagulant protein, antithrombin, in the group of Dr. Vicente Vicente.
He obtained the mention of Doctor with the highest qualification and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award granted by the University of Murcia in 2014. His doctorate was international, since he made two pre-doctoral stays, one at the Universit Paris Sud XI, France for 3 months ;
and another at the University of Illinois at Chicago, United States for 4 months.
After his PhD in 2015, he obtained a 3-year postdoctoral contract in the haemostasis research group of the Institute for Molecular Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, under the direction of Prof. James O'Donnell.
The funds of this contract come from the granting of a 3-year project by the Health Research Board in Ireland.
This research group, in which he continues to work today, moved in 2017 to the Irish Center for Vacular Biology, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Dublin.
His research during this time is based on the pathophysiology of von Willebrand factor in von Willebrand disease, the mechanisms involved in the clearance of this circulating protein and its role in the inflammatory response.
These investigations have led her to make a 9-month stay in the laboratory of Dr. Jorge Di Paola, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA to deepen the genetic study of von Willebrand disease.
During these years as a researcher, she has published 20 articles, 7 of them as the first author in the best journals in the field of blood hematology, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Thrombosis & Haemostasis and other journals related to biochemistry and molecular biology such as Journal of Biological Chemistry
In addition, he has obtained 3 Young investigation award for his oral communicators in the years 2013, 2015 and 2017 in the congress organized by the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), and other prizes in national and international congresses.
One of his works recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry has been selected in 2% of the best articles of the year (Editors' Pick), only 50-100 articles are selected each year out of a total of almost 7000. In addition, his profile has been published as an outstanding researcher and first author of the work;
and the article was the cover of the magazine that week.
The mayor of Alhama, Diego Conesa, and the Councilor for Education, Mariola Guevara, attended on January 29, 2016 at the investiture ceremony of Sonia as a doctor at the University of Murcia.
Choice of the jury
This year, a dozen candidates for the Violeta Award have been presented, mostly through the website of the City Council, launching this participation mechanism in 2018 for the first time.
The election of the prize has corresponded to the Advising Council of the Woman, composed by:
- Two members of the San Lzaro association
- Two members of the association Housewives
- Two members of the Ceres association
- Two members of the Alforus association
- Two members of the Water and Land association
- A member of the El Abedul association, from El Berro
- A representative of CC OO
- A representative of CGT
- A representative of UGT
- Isabel Campos, councilor of the City Council of Alhama de Murcia by the IU-Verdes group
- Isabel Cava, technician of the Department of Equality
- Nani Navarro, Councilor for Equality
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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