Mabel Loza, winner of the Alba de Compostela 2024 Award

The scientific director of the CiMUS of the USC, Mabel Loza, will be recognised on 25 July with the Alba de Compostela award from the City Council of Santiago. During the ceremony, the mayoress of Santiago de Compostela, Goretti Sanmartín has highlighted "its spectacular trajectory in which great advances for public health stand out’. For her part, Mabel Loza wanted to share the award ‘with her group with whom she shares this and all the awards’. She emphasised that the dream of ‘reaching clinical trials in patients with 17 projects for unmet clinical needs, the last one for COVID-19’ had come true. From the Faculty of Pharmacy and CiMUS, hand in hand with IDIS (the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela), with the great healthcare professionals of the hospital where we can close the circle of discoveries for patients, who are all of us’.

Merits

For the selection of the 2024 awards, the social roots, relevance and projection of each person proposed has been taken into account, as well as their respective personal and professional careers that "work continuously for Compostela". The scientific director of CiMUS will share this recognition with the president of the Board of Trustees of the Museo do Pobo Galego, Concha Losada, the businessman Xaquín Mato, and the president of the Foro Galego de Inmigración, Miguel Fernández.

The Alba de Compostela is inspired by the well-known speech Alba de Gloria that Castelao made in Buenos Aires on 25 July 1948, in which he portrays historical figures that since the Middle Ages contributed to build the identity and presence in the world of Santiago and Galicia and in which he formulates a wish of hope for the future.