Citizenship Spanish | Academic advisors Mercedes Salaices | |
Known for cardiovascular medicine Notable awards L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science | ||
Ana María Briones Alonso (born 1972, Madrid) is a Spanish scientist in the field of the medicine, and investigates the causes and mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular illnesses and arterial hypertension.
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Life
Ana Briones developed her investigation in the department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic of the empowered of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, where she analyses the medicines for use in treatment to evaluate efficacy, with other possible drugs.
She forms part of the group of investigation directed by the doctor Mercedes Salaices, chair of the Department of Pharmacology of the Autonomous University of Madrid and director of the Group of Investigation “Physiology and Vascular Pharmacology” of the IdiPAZ, as well as Academic Correspondent of the Royal Academy National of Pharmacy (RANF), constituted by researchers situated in the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, in the University Hospital in the Faculty of Sciences of the Health of the University Rey Juan Carlos, as well as by collaborators of the Network of Cardiovascular Investigation (RIC) and of other centres of investigation. The group investigates fundamentally:
Awards
In November 2010, she was awarded, with four scientists (Isabel Ballasts Becker, Elena Ramírez Vine, Mercedes Vila and Antonia Smith), with the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science, with an endowment of €15000 to reward the work of women younger than 40 years to support women in the science.