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UMU professor Marta Garaulet has been awarded the Vermeil Medal of the French Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters; thus recognizing women and men who, with their talent and work, contribute to the influence of culture in the artistic, literary and scientific fields. The professor of Physiology receives this award, not only for her scientific research but also for the dissemination and transmission to society of their results.
The jury has especially highlighted her efforts in the prevention and treatment of obesity through the dissemination of the Mediterranean diet and the results of her studies on chronobiology and the relationship between meal times and obesity, among other merits. Marta Garaulet's relationship with France began in 2001 when she did her postdoctoral stay at the Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse, where she began her line of research on gene expression in adipose tissue.
At that time, her work on the newly discovered "Adiponectin" a protective cytokine against diabetes, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) was among the most cited in the world.
From there, Marta Garaulet and her team have published more than 50 works on adipose tissue.
Along these lines, last July they published the work Circadian Rhythms in Hormone-Sensitive Lipase in Human Adipose Tissue: Relationship to Meal Timing and Fasting Duration in JCEM magazine,which in part explains the reason why eating late is associated with a higher degree of obesity and less weight loss during a diet. This is not the first recognition granted to Garaulet in France; In 2011 she received the 'Nutrition and Santé Award in the Weight Management', award for the best professional career in the field of endocrinology and nutrition in the European Union. The presentation of the Vermeil medal will take place at an academic ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel on February 6 in Paris.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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