Pilar Santisteban is awarded the medal of the city of Villanueva de la Serena
On Friday, September 13, our colleague Pilar Santisteban received the medal of her hometown, Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz). This medal rewards Pilar's scientific career for her pioneering work in different aspects of thyroidology with special focus on the study of thyroid genes and their role in diseases such as congenital hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer.
Pilar Santisteban Sanz is Doctor Ad Honorem and leads the Emerging Genes in Thyroid Cancer group at the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Sols-Morreale (IIBM), CSIC-UAM, where she has worked for several decades.
The medal award ceremony was very emotional, with very well elaborated and entertaining speeches, which praised Pilar's scientific career, her personality, her family life and many anecdotes of her childhood and youth. The mayoress of Villanueva de la Serena emphasized that Pilar "became the first woman to be recognized with the highest distinction of the town".
The IIBM congratulates the researcher Pilar Santisteban for this well-deserved medal, for being the first woman and the first scientist to receive it and for a career full of successes.
For more information about the event and a very touching summary of Pilar's scientific career, please click HERE.
The picture shows Pilar presenting the medal she had just received from the Mayoress, Ms. Ana Belén Fernández González