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A celebration of Spain’s exemplary lab leaders

Meet the winners of Nature’s 2017 mentoring awards.
  1. Alison Abbott

    1. Alison Abbott is Nature’s senior European correspondent and is based in Munich, Germany.

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In the 1980s, Alicante was known only as a beach resort in southern Spain. Carlos Belmonte made it into a place where researchers could carry out international-level work in neuroscience. And in the 1970s, Margarita Salas created a school of molecular biology in Spain at a time when that science did not exist in the country’s minimal and internationally isolated research environment.

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Nature 552, 139-140 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07836-y

Alison Abbott was a member of the judging panel for the 2017 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science.

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 15 December 2017: An earlier version of this article misspelled the colloquial term for Margarita Salas’s trainees.

  • Update 26 September 2019: On 25 September 2019, Nature withdrew the prize awarded to Carlos López-Otín. A note from the Editor has been added by way of explanation.

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