} Oscar Marín Parra FMedSci FRS (born 31 March 1971) is a Spanish and British neuroscientist. He is married to neuroscientist Beatriz Rico.

Education

Oscar Marín was born in

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and received his undergraduate degree in

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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.

Research and career

Before being appointed Professor of

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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

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in 2020. In 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. Marín was a founding member of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marín, Oscar 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