Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín | |||
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| Born | March 31, 1971 Madrid | ||
| Nationality | Spanish | ||
| Citizenship | Spain | ||
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| Alma mater | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | ||
| Occupation | Neuroscientist | ||
Oscar Marín FMedSci (born March 31, 1971) is a Spanish-born neuroscientist who is the director of the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at King's College London. He is married to neuroscientist Beatriz Rico.
Education
Marín was born in Madrid and received his undergraduate degree in biology from Complutense University of Madrid, and later his PhD in neuroscience. He then undertook postdoctoral training with M. Angela Nieto at the Cajal Institute|Instituto Cajal and John L. Rubenstein and Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the University of California, San Francisco.
Research and career
Before being appointed Professor of neuroscience at King's College London in 2014, Marín started his career at the Institute of Neurosciences between 2003 and 2014.
Marín is known for his discoveries concerning the specification, migration and wiring of neurons in the cerebral cortex,[1] with special reference to the development of inhibitory interneurons. These discoveries have provided a novel conceptual paradigm that illuminates current research on the origin of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.[2]
Awards and honours
In 2004 Marín received the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) in its first edition. In 2011 he received the Rey Jaime I Award and in 2012 the FENS-EJN Young Investigator Award. In 2014 Marín received the Roger de Spoelberch Award for his work on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. In 2017 Marín received the Ramón y Cajal Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and the Remedios Caro Almela Award in 2019.
Marín was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2010, and a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom in 2020. He was a founding member of the European Research Council.
References
- ↑ "Neurons dynamically switch identity in response to brain activity". the Guardian. 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ↑ "Why study autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy together?". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
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