Myriam Gorospe

She was born in San Sebastián, (Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, Spain). She moved to Madrid to study Biology in the Complutense University of Madrid^[2] and later to the United States for her doctoral studies at the State University of New York at Albany, which completed in 1993.^[3] She then joined the National Institute on Aging (NIA), became Principal Investigator of the RNA Regulation Section in 1998 and director of the Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics in 2014.^[4]

In 2009, she was elected as Women Scientist Advisor together with Francesca Bosetti, Cathy Wolkow and Marilyn Huestis. They developed “The NIA/NIDA WSA Awards” to recognize women scientists at their Institutes of Health for their scientific accomplishments.^[5]

In September 2013, she gave the conference L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science during the XXXVI Congress of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM).^[6]

She is part of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Aging‑US.^[7]

• NIH Changing Cells, Aging Bodies
• Publications by Myriam Gorospe at ResearchGate