Margarita del Val explained

Margarita del Val
Spouse:Enrique J. de la Rosa
Alma Mater:Autonomous University of Madrid
Workplaces:Spanish National Research Council,

Margarita del Val Latorre (born 1959) is a Spanish chemist, immunologist, and virologist. She coordinates the Salud Global ("Global Health") platform run by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Early life and education

Margarita del Val was born in Madrid in 1959 to the chemists Manuel del Val and Consuelo Latorre.[1] [2] del Val attended the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) starting in 1976, during the Transition.[3] During this time, increasing protests on university grounds against the Francoist dictatorship culminated in all Spanish universities going on strike starting in 1973,[4] which was ongoing when she arrived at the university. In the absence of any classes, del Val and other students read books and played games. One book she read described how proteins were made in cells, which influenced her decision to study biochemistry and she completed her thesis in 1985 under the supervision of .[5]

Career

In the 1980s, del Val began working at the, a research institute at the UAM jointly run by the university and the CSIC. After completing her doctorate in 1986, she left for West Germany, spending two years at the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals in Tübingen, a now-defunct research institution of the Friedrich Loeffler Institute.[6] She then spent three years at the University of Ulm. del Val returned to Spain in the 1990s, having developed an experimental vaccine design based on isolated T-cell epitopes.https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/jvi.65.7.3641-3646.1991 Afterwards, del Val stayed abroad at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and McGill University in Montreal, before spending twenty years at the Carlos III Health Institute.

In April 2020, del Val helped set up and launch the Salud Global ("Global Health") program, a CSIC project facilitating COVID-19 research between over 300 Spanish research groups.[7] del Val has provided her thoughts on Spain's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic[8] and requested an investigation into Spain's handling of the pandemic.[9]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2015 del Val was named a corresponding academician of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy.[10] In 2021 she received the "Medalla de Honor a los Valores Sociales" from Menéndez Pelayo International University for her work in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

Personal life

del Val is married to the biologist Enrique J. de la Rosa, who she met at the UAM in 1977. She has a son and daughter.

Notes and References

  1. News: Casal . Luis . 25 November 2020 . Quién es Margarita del Val, la viróloga implacable que alerta sobre la Navidad y desmonta a Simón . . live . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210122054022/https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20201125/margarita-val-virologa-implacable-navidad-desmonta-simon/538447437_0.html . 22 January 2021.
  2. News: Sánchez-Mellado . Luz . 20 September 2020 . Margarita del Val: "Me avergüenza el rifirrafe político sobre el virus. ¿Cómo pueden ser tan cortos de vista?" . . live . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210122051724/https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-09-19/margarita-del-val-me-averguenza-el-rifirrafe-politico-sobre-el-virus-como-pueden-ser-tan-cortos-de-vista.html . 22 January 2021.
  3. News: Abad. Ana Fernández. 20 November 2020. Margarita del Val: "Que todo lo malo sea que no vamos a poder celebrar la comida de Navidad. Es un mal menor". S Moda. El País. live. 21 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122052135/https://smoda.elpais.com/moda/actualidad/margarita-del-val-cientifica-covid-coronavirus-navidad-vacunas/. 22 January 2021.
  4. Book: Carr. Raymond. Spain, dictatorship to democracy. Aizpurúa. Juan Pablo Fusi. Allen & Unwin. 1979. 0049460129. London. 148–149.
  5. Del Val Latorre . Margarita . 1985 . Componentes glicosilados del virus de la peste porcina africana - Dialnet . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200611205419/https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=36472 . 11 June 2020 . 21 January 2021 . Dialnet.
  6. Web site: FLI Tübingen: Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122213022/https://www.fli.de/en/about-us/historie/fli-tuebingen/. 22 January 2021. 22 January 2021. Friedrich Loeffler Institute.
  7. News: Jar . Núria . 23 December 2020 . Margarita del Val, sobre el futuro de la COVID: "Prefiero estar preparada para varios años y que luego sea más corto" . . live . 21 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210122055357/https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/margarita-val-frente-covid-debemos-pensar-conductas-sencillas-efectos-potentes_1_6554722.html . 22 January 2021.
  8. Web site: Esteban . Felix . 2021-07-23 . ¿Por qué Margarita del Val es tan pesimista con la pandemia? . 2022-03-24 . Moncloa . es.
  9. Web site: Galán . Lola . 2021-02-13 . Margarita del Val, la viróloga que entra en los hogares . 2022-03-24 . El País . es.
  10. Web site: September 24, 2015 . Toma de posesión como Académica Correspondiente del Ilma. Sra. Dña. Margarita del Val Latorre – Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia . 2022-03-24 . ranf.com.
  11. Web site: March 18, 2021 . La UIMP concede la 'Medalla de Honor a los Valores Sociales' a la viróloga e inmunóloga Margarita del Val - UIMP . 2022-03-24 . www.uimp.es.

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