{"id":2305,"date":"2005-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T08:00:00","slug":"salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cient\u00edfico de Salk recibe la Medalla Glenn T. Seaborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Jolla, CA \u2013 <a href=\"\/es\/faculty\/evans.html\/\">Ronald M. Evans<\/a>, Ph.D., quien durante sus 27 a\u00f1os de investigaci\u00f3n en el Instituto Salk ha realizado importantes descubrimientos sobre c\u00f3mo las hormonas y los medicamentos controlan el metabolismo, el desarrollo y la reproducci\u00f3n del cuerpo, ha sido galardonado con la prestigiosa Medalla Glenn T. Seaborg, que lleva el nombre del qu\u00edmico ganador del Premio Nobel que fue asesor de 10 presidentes de Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Evans recibi\u00f3 el premio el s\u00e1bado 5 de noviembre en UCLA, cuyo Departamento de Qu\u00edmica y Bioqu\u00edmica cre\u00f3 la medalla en 1987 para honrar a cient\u00edficos que han realizado contribuciones significativas en el campo.<\/p>\n<p>En el Instituto Salk, Evans es profesor y jefe del Laboratorio de Expresi\u00f3n G\u00e9nica. Ocupa la C\u00e1tedra March of Dimes en Biolog\u00eda del Desarrollo y Molecular. Investigador del Instituto M\u00e9dico Howard Hughes, Evans ha recibido muchos otros honores, incluido el Premio Lasker 2004 a la Investigaci\u00f3n M\u00e9dica B\u00e1sica.<\/p>\n<p>El 15 de noviembre, la Academia Francesa de Ciencias otorgar\u00e1 a Evans la Grande M\u00e9daille d\u2019Or de 2005, el m\u00e1ximo galard\u00f3n cient\u00edfico en Francia.<\/p>\n<h3>M\u00e1s sobre la investigaci\u00f3n de Evans:<\/h3>\n<p>En el Instituto Salk, la investigaci\u00f3n de Evans ha revelado que existe una \u2019superfamilia\u2018 de receptores nucleares que regulan pr\u00e1cticamente toda actividad de desarrollo y metab\u00f3lica, desde el procesamiento de nutrientes hasta la divisi\u00f3n celular. Esta \u2019superfamilia\u2018 de receptores nucleares comprende actualmente unos 50 reguladores transcripcionales que intervienen en la funci\u00f3n de la hormona tiroidea, la testosterona y otras hormonas esteroides, y nutrientes como las vitaminas A y D, el colesterol y ciertos extractos herbales. <\/p>\n<p>Evans demostr\u00f3 que los receptores nucleares comparten una estructura com\u00fan, compuesta por dos dominios principales: uno reconoce la hormona u otras mol\u00e9culas ligando espec\u00edficas para el receptor, y el otro reconoce los elementos de ADN de los promotores de genes diana. Antes de las investigaciones de Evans, no se sab\u00eda que las hormonas esteroides liposolubles y las grasas alimentarias utilizaban una estrategia com\u00fan \u2013 los receptores nucleares \u2013 para comunicarse con los genes dentro del n\u00facleo de las c\u00e9lulas.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed, los estudios de Evans han establecido v\u00ednculos moleculares directos entre la nutrici\u00f3n, la fisiolog\u00eda endocrina y enfermedades metab\u00f3licas como la diabetes y la aterosclerosis, mejorando as\u00ed nuestra comprensi\u00f3n de la base molecular de las enfermedades relacionadas con la obesidad, incluido el s\u00edndrome X, un trastorno caracterizado por hipertensi\u00f3n arterial, cardiopat\u00edas y resistencia a la insulina.<\/p>\n<p>Una t\u00e9cnica de activaci\u00f3n g\u00e9nica desarrollada en el laboratorio Evans ha sido utilizada en casi todas las compa\u00f1\u00edas farmac\u00e9uticas para caracterizar la funci\u00f3n de receptores y ha contribuido al descubrimiento y desarrollo de medicamentos para tratar el c\u00e1ncer, la obesidad y la osteoporosis.<\/p>\n<p>Al describir los receptores nucleares, Evans dijo una vez que eran una \u201cfamilia cuya historia est\u00e1 ligada a la evoluci\u00f3n de todo el reino animal y cuyas acciones, al decodificar el genoma, abarcan la vasta diversidad de funciones biol\u00f3gicas, desde el desarrollo hasta la fisiolog\u00eda, la patolog\u00eda y el tratamiento\u201d.\u201d<\/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 descubrimiento de medicamentos para el tratamiento de la leucemia mieloide y otros tipos de c\u00e1ncer. <\/p>\n<p>El equipo de Evans tambi\u00e9n revel\u00f3 que dos receptores PPAR distintos desempe\u00f1an papeles clave en la regulaci\u00f3n del almacenamiento y la quema de grasa en el cuerpo. Sus estudios mostraron que los ratones gen\u00e9ticamente modificados para producir una versi\u00f3n hiperactiva del receptor PPAR queman grasa diet\u00e9tica a tasas m\u00e1s altas y tienen m\u00e1s fibras musculares de contracci\u00f3n lenta, o de resistencia. Cuando se pusieron a prueba en una cinta de correr del tama\u00f1o de un roedor, estos \u2019ratones maratonianos\u201c gen\u00e9ticamente modificados corrieron el doble de distancia que sus compa\u00f1eros de camada normales.<\/p>\n<p>Elegido a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, el Instituto de Medicina, as\u00ed como a la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias, Evans es un antiguo ganador del Premio Cient\u00edfico del A\u00f1o de California, el Premio Sloan de General Motors a la 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. \n<\/p>\n<h3>Sobre Glenn Seaborg:<\/h3>\n<p>Seaborg, quien muri\u00f3 en 1999, dirigi\u00f3 el grupo de la Universidad de Chicago que ide\u00f3 los procesos de extracci\u00f3n qu\u00edmica utilizados en la producci\u00f3n de plutonio para armas nucleares durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Por sus descubrimientos en la qu\u00edmica de los elementos transur\u00e1nicos, recibi\u00f3 el Premio Nobel de Qu\u00edmica junto con E. M. McMillan en 1951. Recibi\u00f3 la Medalla Nacional de Ciencia en 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Seaborg, profesor de qu\u00edmica en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, durante casi 60 a\u00f1os, fue uno de los \u00faltimos sobrevivientes del Proyecto Manhattan y el hom\u00f3nimo del elemento 106 (seaborgio) de la tabla peri\u00f3dica. <\/p>\n<p>Aunque Seaborg fue el primero en descubrir y aislar cantidades apreciables de plutonio para su uso en armas at\u00f3micas, se convirti\u00f3 en un ferviente defensor del desarme nuclear. <\/p>\n<p>Fue rector de UC Berkeley en 1961, cuando el Presidente John F. Kennedy lo nombr\u00f3 presidente de la Comisi\u00f3n de Energ\u00eda At\u00f3mica, cargo que ocup\u00f3 durante 10 a\u00f1os, tiempo durante el cual tambi\u00e9n sirvi\u00f3 a los Presidentes Lyndon Johnson y Richard Nixon. Luego fue director asociado general del Laboratorio Nacional Lawrence Berkeley, profesor universitario de Qu\u00edmica (el t\u00edtulo m\u00e1s distinguido otorgado por los Regentes) y presidente del Lawrence Hall of Science.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[91],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2305","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>Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La Jolla, CA \u2013 Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., who during his 27 years of research at the Salk Institute has made major discoveries about how hormones and drugs control the body&#8217;s metabolism, development and reproduction, has been honored with the prestigious Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, named for the Nobel laureate chemist who was an advisor to 10 U.S. Presidents.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/salk-institute-preview-image.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"329\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\\\/\",\"name\":\"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2005-11-04T08:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/news-release\\\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/\",\"name\":\"Salk Institute for Biological Studies\",\"description\":\"The Power of Science\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Salk Institute for Biological Studies\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/salk_logo_696.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/salk_logo_696.jpg\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Salk Institute for Biological Studies\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.salk.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/","og_locale":"es_MX","og_type":"article","og_title":"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies","og_description":"La Jolla, CA \u2013 Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., who during his 27 years of research at the Salk Institute has made major discoveries about how hormones and drugs control the body&#8217;s metabolism, development and reproduction, has been honored with the prestigious Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, named for the Nobel laureate chemist who was an advisor to 10 U.S. Presidents.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/","og_site_name":"Salk Institute for Biological Studies","og_image":[{"width":628,"height":329,"url":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/salk-institute-preview-image.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/","url":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/","name":"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal - Salk Institute for Biological Studies","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#website"},"datePublished":"2005-11-04T08:00:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es-MX","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-awarded-glenn-t-seaborg-medal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/","name":"Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos","description":"El Poder de la Ciencia","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#organization","name":"Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos","url":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"es-MX","@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/salk_logo_696.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/salk_logo_696.jpg","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"Salk Institute for Biological Studies"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"ACF":{"paper_url":"","journal_title":"","paper_author_list":"","paper_title":"","subhead":"","home_photo":"","listing_photo":"","line_2":"","line_1":"Salk scientist awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Medal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disclosure\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disclosure"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/disclosure"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disclosure\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"disease-research","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disease-research?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"la hora de","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}