{"id":2287,"date":"2005-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/frances-highest-scientific-honor-to-be-awarded-this-year-to-salk-institute-scientist-ronald-m-evans\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T07:00:00","slug":"frances-highest-scientific-honor-to-be-awarded-this-year-to-salk-institute-scientist-ronald-m-evans","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/frances-highest-scientific-honor-to-be-awarded-this-year-to-salk-institute-scientist-ronald-m-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"El m\u00e1ximo honor cient\u00edfico de Francia ser\u00e1 otorgado este a\u00f1o al cient\u00edfico del Instituto Salk Ronald M. Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Jolla, CA \u2013 <a href=\"\/es\/faculty\/evans.html\/\">Ronald M. Evans<\/a>, Ph.D., profesor y jefe del Laboratorio de Expresi\u00f3n G\u00e9nica del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos, recibir\u00e1 la Gran Medalla de Oro 2005, el m\u00e1ximo galard\u00f3n cient\u00edfico de Francia, por su investigaci\u00f3n sobre c\u00f3mo las hormonas y los medicamentos controlan el metabolismo, el desarrollo y la reproducci\u00f3n del cuerpo. <\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Evans, ganador en 2004 del prestigioso Premio Lasker de Investigaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica B\u00e1sica, recibir\u00e1 la Gran Medalla de Oro el 15 de noviembre en la Academia Francesa de Ciencias en Par\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>Entre los galardonados anteriores se encuentran Louis Pasteur, Pierre y Marie Curie, Gustave Eiffel y Henri Poincare. El a\u00f1o pasado, el premio fue otorgado al f\u00edsico te\u00f3rico y ganador del Premio Nobel David Gross, de la Universidad de California en Santa B\u00e1rbara.<\/p>\n<p>Miembro de la facultad del Salk desde 1978, el Dr. Evans es Investigador del Howard Hughes Medical Institute y ocupa la C\u00e1tedra de Biolog\u00eda del Desarrollo y Molecular March of Dimes del Instituto Salk.<\/p>\n<p>En 1985, el Dr. Evans descubri\u00f3 el primer plano de una serie de interruptores gen\u00e9ticos, conocidos como receptores, que son capaces de controlar c\u00f3mo el cuerpo utiliza el az\u00facar y la grasa. Este plano llev\u00f3 al aislamiento de 48 interruptores relacionados, conocidos como una superfamilia gen\u00e9tica. Estos interruptores son activados por diversas hormonas y nutrientes, incluyendo las vitaminas A y D, la testosterona y otros esteroides sexuales, el colesterol y ciertos extractos herbales. <\/p>\n<p>La caracterizaci\u00f3n de la funci\u00f3n de la familia de receptores por el Dr. Evans y sus colegas ha mejorado nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de la base molecular de enfermedades relacionadas con la obesidad, como la diabetes y el s\u00edndrome X, un trastorno caracterizado por presi\u00f3n arterial alta, enfermedades card\u00edacas y resistencia a la insulina. Antes de la investigaci\u00f3n del Dr. Evans, no se sab\u00eda que las hormonas esteroides liposolubles y las grasas de la dieta utilizar\u00edan una estrategia com\u00fan para comunicarse con los genes dentro del n\u00facleo de una c\u00e9lula. Todos dependen de mol\u00e9culas receptoras dentro del n\u00facleo de la c\u00e9lula que funcionan como interruptores de encendido\/apagado para los genes tan pronto como se unen a una mol\u00e9cula de hormona.<\/p>\n<p>Al iluminar las estructuras de los receptores de hormonas nucleares y las v\u00edas que utilizan para se\u00f1alar a los genes en el n\u00facleo de los billones de c\u00e9lulas del cuerpo humano, el Dr. Evans y sus colegas han proporcionado una hoja de ruta para que los cient\u00edficos cl\u00ednicos desarrollen medicamentos nuevos, m\u00e1s efectivos y seguros. Su t\u00e9cnica de activaci\u00f3n g\u00e9nica se ha implementado en casi todas las compa\u00f1\u00edas farmac\u00e9uticas y ha llevado al descubrimiento, desarrollo y aprobaci\u00f3n de medicamentos para el tratamiento del c\u00e1ncer, la obesidad y la osteoporosis.<\/p>\n<p>La investigaci\u00f3n de su laboratorio sobre la se\u00f1alizaci\u00f3n de la vitamina A ha sido clave para definir el papel central de la vitamina en la regulaci\u00f3n g\u00e9nica, el desarrollo embrionario y la fisiolog\u00eda adulta. Tambi\u00e9n condujo al desarrollo de medicamentos para el tratamiento de la leucemia mieloide y otros tipos de c\u00e1ncer.<\/p>\n<p>El equipo del Dr. Evans tambi\u00e9n identific\u00f3 los receptores nucleares hormonales PPAR\u0393 y PPAR\u0394, y su papel fundamental en la regulaci\u00f3n del almacenamiento y la quema de grasa en el cuerpo. Los ratones gen\u00e9ticamente modificados para producir una versi\u00f3n hiperactiva del PPAR\u0393 queman grasa diet\u00e9tica a tasas muy altas y tienen una mayor masa muscular de contracci\u00f3n lenta. Cuando se colocan en una cinta de correr del tama\u00f1o de un roedor, estos \u2019ratones maratonistas\u201c gen\u00e9ticamente modificados corren el doble de distancia que sus contrapartes normales.<\/p>\n<p>La investigaci\u00f3n actual del Dr. Evans se centra en los l\u00edpidos derivados de las grasas contenidas en los alimentos que consumimos y el papel de los receptores nucleares en la obesidad, la diabetes y las enfermedades card\u00edacas.<\/p>\n<h3>Acerca del Dr. Evans:<\/h3>\n<p>Nacido y criado en Los \u00c1ngeles, el Dr. Evans obtuvo la licenciatura en bacteriolog\u00eda y luego el 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 de Nueva York, fue reclutado por el Instituto Salk en La Jolla, donde avanz\u00f3, en tan solo ocho a\u00f1os, del puesto de profesor asistente a profesor titular.<\/p>\n<p>Adem\u00e1s de la Gran Medalla de Oro, el Dr. Evans ha recibido numerosos honores. En el oto\u00f1o de 2004, comparti\u00f3 el Premio Lasker de Investigaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica B\u00e1sica (tambi\u00e9n conocido como el \u201cPremio Nobel\u201d de Estados Unidos) con otros dos cient\u00edficos destacados.<\/p>\n<p>Elegido a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias e Instituto de Medicina, as\u00ed como a la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Ciencias, el Dr. Evans es un antiguo galardonado con el premio Cient\u00edfico del A\u00f1o de California, el Premio General Motors Sloan de Investigaci\u00f3n sobre el C\u00e1ncer, el Premio March of Dimes en Biolog\u00eda del Desarrollo, el Premio Bristol-Myers Squibb por Logros Distinguidos en Investigaci\u00f3n Metab\u00f3lica y el Premio Keio en Medicina.<\/p>\n<p>Seg\u00fan el Instituto para la Informaci\u00f3n Cient\u00edfica, una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro, las publicaciones de investigaci\u00f3n del Dr. Evans se encuentran entre las m\u00e1s citadas por la comunidad cient\u00edfica a nivel mundial. <\/p>\n<h3>Sobre la Gran Medalla de Oro de Francia:<\/h3>\n<p>Seg\u00fan la Academia de Ciencias de Francia, la Gran Medalla de Oro reconoce \u201ca un sabio franc\u00e9s o extranjero que haya contribuido al desarrollo de la ciencia de manera decisiva, tanto por la originalidad de su investigaci\u00f3n personal como por su presencia internacional y la influencia estimulante que habr\u00e1 tenido a trav\u00e9s de la creaci\u00f3n de una verdadera escuela de investigaci\u00f3n\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n, visita:   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academie-sciences.fr\/actualites\/nouvelles_gb.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.academie-sciences.fr\/actualites\/nouvelles_gb.htm<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Acerca del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos:<\/h3>\n<p>Reconocido internacionalmente por su investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica pionera en las ciencias biol\u00f3gicas, el Instituto Salk fue fundado en 1960 por el Dr. Jonas Salk, apenas cinco a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de que desarrollara la primera vacuna segura y eficaz contra la polio. La facultad de 57 miembros del instituto est\u00e1 integrada por l\u00edderes cient\u00edficos en los campos de la biolog\u00eda molecular, las neurociencias y la biolog\u00eda vegetal.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[91],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2287","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>France&#039;s highest scientific honor to be awarded this year to Salk Institute scientist Ronald M. 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