Award from the Catalan Nutrition Center of the Institute for Catalan Studies for the doctoral thesis of researcher Ana Cecilia Ho Palma
The researcher Ana Cecilia Ho Palma, member of the Nitrogen-Obesity Research Group at the University of Barcelona, has been awarded the CCNIEC-Fundació Eroski Prize in the latest edition of the awards given by the Catalan Nutrition Center of the Institute for Catalan Studies (CCNIEC). The award ceremony took place on December 11 at the headquarters of this institution. The CCNIEC-Fundació Eroski Prize -an award for the scientific quality of doctoral theses related to the field of nutrition and food- recognizes this researcherʼs doctoral thesis, titled Respuesta innata de los adipocitos en el metabolismo de los fragmentos de 3C en el tejido adiposo blanco e influencia de la insulina, read at the UB‘s Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences in 2018.
The researcher Ana Cecilia Ho Palma, member of the Nitrogen-Obesity Research Group at the University of Barcelona, has been awarded the CCNIEC-Fundació Eroski Prize in the latest edition of the awards given by the Catalan Nutrition Center of the Institute for Catalan Studies (CCNIEC). The award ceremony took place on December 11 at the headquarters of this institution. The CCNIEC-Fundació Eroski Prize -an award for the scientific quality of doctoral theses related to the field of nutrition and food- recognizes this researcherʼs doctoral thesis, titled Respuesta innata de los adipocitos en el metabolismo de los fragmentos de 3C en el tejido adiposo blanco e influencia de la insulina, read at the UB‘s Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences in 2018.
The awarded thesis -a research study on the energy metabolism of cells in the adipose tissue- has been supervised by the lecturer José Antonio Fernández and Professor Xavier Remesar, from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biomedicine, affiliated with the UB‘s Faculty of Biology. The doctoral work of the researcher Ana Cecilia Ho Palma has been conducted within the Research Group Nitrogen-Obesity, led by Professor Xavier Remesar, member of the Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) of the UB.
The CCIEC entity was created in 1999 to contribute to the advance of basic and applied research on nutrition and the improvement of the quality of information and nutritional training of society. The new edition of the awards has also distinguished Professor Andreu Palou, director of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Biotechnology of the University of the Balearic Islands (8th Ramon Turró Prize); the company group Ametller Origen (8th CCNIEC Prize to the best initiative in the improvement of nutrition or food education), the company Borges Agricultural & Industrial Edible Oil (6th CCNIEC Marc Viader Prize in innovation of food products) and the researchers Felipe Villalobos and Nerea Becerra, from the Rovira i Virgili University (CCNIEC-DANONE Prize).