The Agrotecnio Applied Biotechnology PI and ICREA research Paul Christou, who also was Agrotecnio director from 2013 to 2015, will receive the Narcís Monturiol Medal awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The government’s resolution highlights that «he was responsible for obtaining the first commercial transgenic soybean crop.»
Another researchers awarded were Olga Martín (2018), Ignacio Romagosa (1998) o Ramon Albajes (2002) all of them researchers from the Agrotecnio Center.
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