Flora de Pablo (Biology)
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Flora de Pablo is Professor of Research (highest rank) at the Center for Biological Investigation at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). She has led the group of Growth Factors in Vertebrate Development since 1991. She obtained a Medical Degree in 1975, followed by a Doctoral Thesis in Medicine in 1979 and a Master in Psychology from the Universidad de Salamanca.
Flora worked for a decade in the USA at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda) and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena). She is interested in the molecular and cellular biology of development, looking at the regulation of the expression of insulin, its family of proteins and receptors, and their actions in development, particularly neurogenesis.
Flora has received several awards including the "Pharmacia/SEEN" for endocrine research, the "Serono/SEEN" for basic research and the "Carmen de Burgos" for press articles. She is member of the Commission for Women in Science of the CSIC and founder and first President (2001-2007) of the Spanish Association of Women Investigators and Technologists (AMIT). Since 2005, she has been a member of the Spanish Health Minister Advisory Board and, since 2006, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Minister of Education and Research.