{"id":49952,"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/irb-barcelona-presents-the-alumni-of-excellence-award-to-david-vilchez\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:08:54","slug":"irb-barcelona-presents-the-alumni-of-excellence-award-to-david-vilchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/en\/irb-barcelona-presents-the-alumni-of-excellence-award-to-david-vilchez\/","title":{"rendered":"IRB Barcelona presents the \u201cAlumni of Excellence Award\u201d to David Vilchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark this occasion, Vilchez has been invited to IRB Barcelona, where he will give a seminar entitled <em>Mimicking proteostasis of immortal stem cells in a troubled soma to extend organismal healthspan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In autumn, IRB Barcelona will open the call for applications for the second prize. Those eligible for application are former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows who worked at IRB Barcelona for a given period and who are registered in the IRB Barcelona Alumni Network<\/p>\n<p>The jury, which is formed by IRB Barcelona group leaders working in various research fields, valued &#8220;Vilchez\u2019s great capacity to perform cutting-edge research throughout his career and his notable contributions to the fields of neurodegeneration, proteostasis, ageing and stem cell biology&#8221;. The jury also highlighted his commitment to science communication\u2014both to specialised audiences and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>David Vilchez has expressed that he is\u00a0\u201cvery pleased and proud\u201d\u00a0to receive the first of these awards.\u201cIt is good to know that IRB Barcelona follows us after we leave its employment.\u201d\u00a0 David has praised the initiative of the Alumni network, which was launched in October 2015\u2013and through which this award is granted\u2014, referring to it as \u201can excellent system through which to maintain contact, build a community and help each other&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 1st\u00a0Alumni of Excellence Award\u00a0has been sponsored by Eppendorf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today <span style=\"font-family: 'Afta Sans Regular';font-size: 13px;line-height: 16px\">the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcb.ub.edu\/portal\/en\/cerca?p_p_id=cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;p_p_col_id=column-1&amp;p_p_col_count=1&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_jspPage=%2Fhtml%2Fcommon%2Fdetall-empresa.jsp&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_empresaId=ENT_000001&amp;_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_redirect=%2Fportal%2Fca%2Fcerca%3Fp_p_id%3Dcercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_keywords%3Dirb%26_cercador_WAR_empleatsempresesportlet_tab%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRB Barcelona<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span>has presented\u00a0David Vilchez, group leader at the CECAD-Cluster of Excellence in Cologne, Germany, with a commemorative certificate naming him as the first winner of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irbbarcelona.org\/en\/alumni\/irb-barcelona-alumni-of-excellence-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alumni of Excellence Award<\/a>.\u00a0Vilchez obtained his PhD from IRB Barcelona in 2008, and three years ago he began his own group in Germany, where he has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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