María Blasco Marhuenda
| María Blasco Marhuenda | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Alicante, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Citizenship | Spain |
| Alma mater | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Awards | EMBO Gold Medal (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Molecular biology |
| Institutions | Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas |
María Antonia Blasco Marhuenda (born 1965), known as María Blasco, is a Spanish molecular biologist. She is the current director of the Spanish National Centre for Cancer Research (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas).
Blasco was born in 1965. She obtained her PhD in 1993 for her research at the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (UAM-CSIC), under the supervision of Margarita Salas. That same year, Blasco joined the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York (USA) as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the leadership of Carol W. Greider. In 1997 she returned to Spain to start her own research at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnología in Madrid. She joined the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) in 2003 as Director of the Molecular Oncology Programme and Leader of the Telomeres and Telomerase Group. In 2005 she was also assigned as Vice-Director of Basic Research and in 2011 she was appointed as CNIO Director.
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