About Isabel Varela Nieto
Dr. Isabel Varela-Nieto graduated and earned her doctorate in Chemistry, Biochemistry Section, at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). She has been a visiting guest scientist at the Medical Schools of Uppsala (FEBS Fellow, Sweden) and San Diego (MEC Sabbatical, USA). She is Professor of Research at the CSIC and group leader at the CIBER of rare diseases (CIBERER, ISCIII) in Madrid. From the early 1990s she has been studying hearing neurobiology and IGF-1 actions. She was the first Chair of the SEBBM Science for Society working group with which she actively collaborates. She is currently the president of the SEBBM and a member of the FEBS Network working group and FEBS Science and Society Committee.
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FEBS Constituent Society
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Followed by
Evgenia Milova
Student, 5th year (equivalent 1st year of Master’s degree), Lomonosov Moscow State University
Consuelo Guerri
Researcher and Head of Cell Pathology Laboratory, Reserach Center Prince Felipe
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FEBS Network special areas
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Outreach activities: advice, resources and ideas for life scientistsOnline Elsewhere
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Websitewww.ciberer.es
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Contact Emailivarela@iib.uam.es
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Twitter@IVarelaNieto
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LinkedInisabel-varela-28339030
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Yes indeed! keep posting!
Inspiring post!
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If you work in biomedicine, you should read this article and those recommended...
Great tool, thank you very much for sharing!
Great idea! Poster Pitch, looking forward to it
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