IISPV and URV researcher Jordi Salas-Salvadó is appointed a member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine

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IISPV and URV researcher Jordi Salas-Salvadó is appointed a member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine

The institution also awarded the prize for Medical Teaching and Education to the researcher Maria Rosa Fenoll, from the Histology and Neurobiology Unit (UHNeurob) of the IISPV and the URV and a member of the URV’s Faculty of Medicine

IISPV and URV researcher Jordi Salas-Salvadó.

The Spanish Royal National Academy of Medicine (RANME) has awarded its annual prizes, which publicly recognise the work, dedication, hard work and trajectory of Spanish medical professionals and those who dedicate themselves to giving it visibility. IISPV researcher and Professor of Nutrition at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Jordi Salas-Salvadó, has received the most important prize awarded in these distinctions, which, in addition to the recognition, includes the title of corresponding academic of the RANME, the medal of the academic body and the accrediting diploma.

Jordi Salas-Salvadó is head of the Food, Nutrition, Development and Mental Health (ANUT-DSM) group at the IISPV and the URV and principal investigator of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. He is also a member of the Network of Experts of the Public Health Agency of the Generalitat de Catalunya, director of the Catalan Nutrition Centre of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, president of the World Forum for Nutrition Research and Dissemination and a member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium and of the board of the Panel of Experts on Diabetes and Nutrition.

Salas-Salvadó’s research interests focus on human clinical trials evaluating the effect of diets and dietary compounds on obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Since 2005 he is one of the leaders of the PREDIMED study, and he is currently director and chairman of the steering committee of the PREDIMED-PLUS study, an ongoing multicentre, randomised, primary prevention trial with 6,900 overweight or obese participants with metabolic syndrome.

Maria Rosa Fenoll, researcher at the Histology and Neurobiology Unit (UHNeurob) of the IISPV and the URV and member of the URV’s Faculty of Medicine, has been awarded the prize for Medical Teaching and Education.

Maria Rosa Fenoll is a senior researcher at the Histology and Neurobiology Unit (UHNeurob) of the IISPV and the URV. She has been teaching at the URV since 1993 and has coordinated two interuniversity master’s degrees. An expert in audiovisual communication, she has implemented the use of ICT in teaching and has shared teaching innovation awards, the Vicenç Vives award from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the URV.

His field of research is neurobiology, mainly the structural and functional analysis of neuromuscular synaptic plasticity and the biological effects of laser light in mammals. She has participated in competitive research projects, co-authored numerous scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. She has been academic vice-dean of Medicine, vice-dean of international relations and initiated the international relations and mobility programmes of the Faculty of Medicine and the CAJAL and SICUE-SÉNECA mobility programmes in Spain.

The medals will be awarded on 14 January, coinciding with the opening of the new academic year 2025.