Santiago de Compostela, 06 May 2021- María José Alonso, Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), has just received the prestigious National Research Award ‘Juan de la Cierva’ 2021, a major distinction granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. This award was created to distinguish scientists that have excelled in the field of Technology Transfer. María José Alonso received this award in Barcelona at a ceremony presided over by the King and Queen of Spain.

María José Alonso thanked this National Research Award and extended it to all her colleagues: “It is an award for the effort of more than three decades of work, as well as for the more than one hundred people who have worked in my research group during all this time”.

This is a new recognition of Professor Alonso’s outstanding career, after her election to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016, to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) in 2017, to the CRS College of Fellows in 2018, and to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium in 2021. In 2020, Alonso had also received the ‘Medal of Merit in Research and Education’ granted by the Government of Spain.