Varshavsky wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
MADRID | The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category went in this fourth edition to Alexander Varshavsky of California Institute of Technology. According to the jury, Varshavsky’s research has spawned a whole new field in biomedicine, since it is now known that defects in protein degradation mechanism underlie a wide variety of pathologies. His work, as such, has a bearing on the understanding of cancers, immune…