Seville, October 27, 2015. The Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Seville, Julián Martínez Fernández, presented the University of Seville-Bruker Research Awards this Tuesday to the authors of two scientific articles and two research projects of great relevance for their technological impact and the use of equipment from the General Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Service.

In this fourth edition, the jury has selected the article for the first prize, worth 1,500 euros:

“Structural and Functional analysis of novel human cytochrome c targets in apoptosis”, written by researchers Jonathan Martínez Fábregas, Irene Díaz Moreno, Katiuska González Arzola, Simon Janocha, José Antonio Navarro Carruesco, Manuel Hervás Morón, Rita Bernhardt, Adrián Velázquez Campoy, Antonio Díaz Quintana and Miguel Ángel de la Rosa Acosta, most of them attached to the Institute of Plant Biology and Photosynthesis, and in which they identify a whole network of proteins in the cytoplasm and nucleus of human cells that interact with cytochrome c under conditions of programmed cell death.

For the realization of this study, the use of modern equipment existing in the General Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Service (NMR) located in the Research, Technology and Innovation Center of the University of Seville (Citius) has been essential.

On the other hand, one of the prizes in the project category, each worth 1,000 euros, was awarded to the project entitled:

“Design of materials for food packaging inspired by the skin of fruits”, presented by researchers José Jesús Benítez Jiménez and Mª Dolores Alba Carranza, from the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (ICMS), which aims to study the structure of cutin, a natural polyester obtained from tomato fruits, as well as to address the design of synthetic materials based on it.

Source: Vice-Rectorate for Research. University of Seville.