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Doctor Martí Manyalich awarded the Josep Trueta prize

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Dr Àlvar Net, President of the Academy, handing over the Josep Trueta prize to Dr Manyalich (Photo: Academy of Medical Sciences and Health of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands/Photographer: Antoni Bofill).
 23.05.2018

Doctor Martí Manyalich awarded the Josep Trueta prize

The Academy of Medical Sciences and Health of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands Foundation has recognised Doctor Martí Manyalich –president of the DTI (Donation & Transplantation Institute) Foundation, located in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) –with the Josep Trueta prize for scientific research. The prize awarding ceremony took place yesterday with the other Academy’s awards.

 

Dr Martí Manyalich has spent over 30 years working in the field of organ, tissue and cell donation and transplantation. He has been president of the DTI Foundation since 2008, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary, and director of the Transplant Procurement Management (TPM) programme, which has been dedicated to training health professionals in donation and transplantation worldwide for more than 25 years. He is also the transplant assessor at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and professor in the Department of Surgery and Surgical Specialities of the Universitat de Barcelona. He is world-renown for his experience in the field of organ donation and transplantation; he is the author of several scientific publications and a member of the most renowned international organisations in this field.

The Academy is the largest and one of the oldest scientific communities of health professionals in Catalonia. Its aim is to encourage the continuous training in health sciences and to work hand-in-hand with other institutions from around the world in this field. Founded in 1872, it is a meeting point for health professionals from Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia and Andorra.

The Academy launched the Josep Trueta prize in 1987 in order to award the scientific progress made by a person or research team in the field of health sciences. In the last five years, the recipient must have published at least one scientific paper around the world, of which at least one of them during the year of the call, in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia or Andorra.