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Oscar Marín Parra
FMedSci FRS (born 31 March 1971) is a Spanish and British
neuroscientist. He is married to neuroscientist
Beatriz Rico
Beatriz Rico (born 25 February 1970, in Avilés, Asturias) is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Rico spent most of her childhood and adolescence in Gijón, having studied high school at the Jovellanos Institute. At 19, she moved to Madrid to study ...
.
Education
Oscar Marín was born in
Madrid and received his undergraduate degree in
Biology from
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and later his PhD in neuroscience. He then undertook postdoctoral training with M. Angela Nieto at the
Instituto Cajal and John L. Rubenstein and
Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the
University of California in San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. I ...
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Research and career
Before being appointed Professor of
Neuroscience at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
in 2014, Marín started his career at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante (Spain) between 2003 and 2014.
Marín is known for his discoveries concerning the specification., migration and wiring of neurons in the cerebral cortex, with special reference to the development of inhibitory interneurons. These discoveries have provided a novel conceptual paradigm that illuminates current research on the origin of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia
Awards and honours
In 2004, Marín received the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) in its first round. In 2011 he received the
Rey Jaime I Award and in 2012 the FENS-EJN Young Investigator Award. In 2014 Marín received the Roger de Spoelberch Award for his work on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. In 2017 Marín received the Ramón y Cajal Medal from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, and the Remedios Caro Almela Award in 2019.
Marín was elected a member of the
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2010, and a member of the
Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society.
Marín was a founding member of the
European Research Council
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References
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1971 births
Living people
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Fellows of the Royal Society
Spanish neuroscientists
Scientists from Madrid
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Academics of King's College London
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Spanish expatriates in the United Kingdom
21st-century Spanish scientists