Professor Xavier Trepat receives the Rei Jaume I Prize on biomedical research
Xavier Trepat, researcher at the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Scienes at the University of Barcelona and ICREA research professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Barcelona (IBEC), based at the Barcelona Science Park, has received the Rei Jaume I Prize on biomedical research, “as a world authority and pioneer in the field of mechanobiology, a rapidly evolving discipline with deep implications for the understanding of cell biology, embryology and cancer”.
Xavier Trepat, researcher at the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Scienes at the University of Barcelona and ICREA research professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Barcelona (IBEC), based at the Barcelona Science Park, has received the Rei Jaume I Prize on biomedical research, “as a world authority and pioneer in the field of mechanobiology, a rapidly evolving discipline with deep implications for the understanding of cell biology, embryology and cancer”.
The awards of the thirty-fifth edition of the Rei Jaume I Prize were published on Tuesday 4 June, at the Palau de la Generalitat Valenciana (Government of Valencia), in a ceremony presided over by the Head of the Council, Carlos Mazón, and the presence of the chief executive, Javier Quesada, and the president of the Rei Jaume I Prize Foundation, Vicent Boluda.
Xavier Trepat holds a degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering from the UB and leads the IBEC’s Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics Group. He is a member of the Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBER-BBN) and has received several grants from the European Research Council (ERC). He is the author of scientific articles published in high-impact journals in the field of both physics and cell biology, and has focused his research on the study of the physical mechanisms of biology to translate his results to the clinical side, the market and society.
His research aims to understand how cells and tissues grow, invade, move and regenerate in a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological processes. He has developed and patented several technologies that measure cellular mechanical properties at the micro- and nanoscale. It should be recalled that Xavier Trepat has also recently been distinguished with the Lilly Foundation Award for Biomedical Research 2024.
The other awardees of this call are Antonio Acón (basic research), Francisco Pérez (economics), Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano (protection of the environment), Luis Serrano (new technologies), Víctor Amarnani (entrepreneurship) and Jordi Sunyer (clinical research and public health).
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