The rabbit astrophysicist Mar Carretero Castrillo (26 years old), an expert in high energies, has received the third Vanguardia de la Ciencia 2024 award. This award is given by the newspaper La Vanguardia and the Fundació Calayunya La Pedrera for excellent research led by women in Spain.
The award has been granted for her discovery of runaway stars in the Milky Way. In this edition, more than 90 nominations were received, from which eight finalists and three winners were selected.
The readers of the aforementioned newspaper chose the research led by Marta Alonso at the University of Navarra Clinic and the CIMA research center, and with Iker Ausejo as the author, as the winner of the XIII edition of the award. The work was about a therapeutic target that opens the way to treat pediatric cancer with the worst diagnosis.
In second position, was the research led by Mercedes Ricote and Ana Paredes as the first author, discovering that one of the fatty acids in breast milk favors the development of the heart in newborns.
In third place, the rabbit Mar Carretero, from the Institud de Ciències del Cosmos of the Universitat de Barcelona (ICCUB), received 12.6% of the votes for her discovery of runaway stars, whose movements are with different speeds and trajectories.
