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Evans<\/a>, profesor y jefe del Laboratorio de Expresi\u00f3n G\u00e9nica del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos, fue galardonado con el prestigioso Premio Harvey en Salud Humana del Technion-Instituto Israel\u00ed de Tecnolog\u00eda, la principal universidad de ciencia y tecnolog\u00eda de Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Es honrado por \u201csu descubrimiento de la superfamilia de genes que codifican receptores de hormonas nucleares y la elucidaci\u00f3n de su modo de acci\u00f3n universal, un proceso que gobierna c\u00f3mo las hormonas lipof\u00edlicas, las vitaminas y los medicamentos regulan la expresi\u00f3n g\u00e9nica y afectan pr\u00e1cticamente todas las v\u00edas de desarrollo y metab\u00f3licas\u201d.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Charles L. Bennett, profesor del Departamento de F\u00edsica y Astronom\u00eda de la Universidad Johns Hopkins, tambi\u00e9n ser\u00e1 galardonado con el Premio Harvey en Ciencia y Tecnolog\u00eda por su contribuci\u00f3n a la determinaci\u00f3n precisa de la edad, composici\u00f3n y curvatura del universo. <\/p>\n<p>El premio, establecido en 1972 por el difunto Leo M. Harvey de Los \u00c1ngeles, reconoce los avances en ciencia y tecnolog\u00eda. El honor viene acompa\u00f1ado de un premio en efectivo de $$75,000 y la oportunidad de dar una conferencia en el Technion.<\/p>\n<p>En 1985, el Dr. Evans descubri\u00f3 c\u00f3mo el cortisol, una hormona esteroidea que controla el metabolismo del az\u00facar, regula directamente la actividad de los genes. Los cient\u00edficos sab\u00edan desde principios del siglo XX que las hormonas dirig\u00edan la fisiolog\u00eda de los \u00f3rganos, pero no ten\u00edan idea de c\u00f3mo las cantidades min\u00fasculas de hormonas producidas por el cuerpo desencadenaban realmente los cambios. <\/p>\n<p>El descubrimiento pionero del Dr. Evans del receptor de esteroides proporcion\u00f3 el c\u00f3digo tan necesario para descifrar c\u00f3mo las hormonas controlan los genes y cre\u00f3 nuevas y potentes tecnolog\u00edas para el descubrimiento de f\u00e1rmacos. Desde entonces, \u00e9l y otros han descubierto una familia de casi 50 receptores nucleares relacionados que funcionan como interruptores de encendido\/apagado para los genes. <\/p>\n<p>Dado que los receptores nucleares ejercen un poder fisiol\u00f3gico tan grande, su descubrimiento cambi\u00f3 fundamentalmente nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de las enfermedades humanas y ya est\u00e1 produciendo beneficios en nuevos f\u00e1rmacos para el c\u00e1ncer, la inflamaci\u00f3n, la osteoporosis, la diabetes tipo II, la obesidad y las enfermedades cardiovasculares. <\/p>\n<p>Nacido y criado en Los \u00c1ngeles, el Dr. Evans obtuvo su licenciatura en bacteriolog\u00eda y su doctorado en microbiolog\u00eda e inmunolog\u00eda de la Universidad de California, Los \u00c1ngeles. Despu\u00e9s de completar una beca de investigaci\u00f3n postdoctoral en la Universidad Rockefeller en Nueva York, fue reclutado por el Instituto Salk en La Jolla. Miembro de la facultad de Salk desde 1978, el Dr. Evans es un investigador del Howard Hughes Medical Institute y ocupa la C\u00e1tedra March of Dimes de Biolog\u00eda del Desarrollo y Molecular del Instituto Salk. <\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Evans es beneficiario de numerosos premios y honores, incluido el Premio Gairdner, el principal premio cient\u00edfico de Canad\u00e1, a principios de este a\u00f1o y la Grande M\u00e9daille d\u2019Or (Gran Medalla de Oro), el m\u00e1ximo galard\u00f3n cient\u00edfico de Francia, en 2004. Comparti\u00f3 el Premio Lasker de Investigaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica B\u00e1sica con otros dos cient\u00edficos en el oto\u00f1o de 2004. Ha sido elegido miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, del Instituto de Medicina, as\u00ed como de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. <\/p>\n<p>Tambi\u00e9n ha recibido el Premio Cient\u00edfico del A\u00f1o de California; el Premio Sloan de General Motors para la Investigaci\u00f3n del C\u00e1ncer; el Premio March of Dimes en Biolog\u00eda del Desarrollo; el Premio Bristol-Myers Squibb a la Trayectoria Distinguida en Investigaci\u00f3n Metab\u00f3lica; y el Premio Keio en Medicina. Los estudios publicados por el Dr. Evans se encuentran entre los m\u00e1s citados por la comunidad cient\u00edfica a nivel mundial, seg\u00fan el Instituto para la Informaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica, una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro. <\/p>\n<p>El Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos en La Jolla, California, es una organizaci\u00f3n independiente sin fines de lucro dedicada a descubrimientos fundamentales en las ciencias de la vida, la mejora de la salud humana y la formaci\u00f3n de futuras generaciones de investigadores. Jonas Salk, M.D., cuya vacuna contra la polio pr\u00e1cticamente erradic\u00f3 la paralizante poliomielitis en 1955, inaugur\u00f3 el Instituto en 1965 con una donaci\u00f3n de terrenos de la Ciudad de San Diego y el apoyo financiero de March of Dimes.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[91],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-1925","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-ronald-evans"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ronald M. 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