Commemorative Symposium of the Caro Almela Chair

The Remedios Caro Almela Chair of Developmental Neurobiology, was created in the year 2000 as a result of a philanthropic initiative by Fernando Martínez Ramos and his family, to honor the memory of his deceased wife Remedios Caro Almela.

Since 2006, the Remedios Caro Almela Chair has sponsored an international prize in Developmental Neurobiology as part of the Chair’s activities, and consists of an unrestricted award of 20.000€.

This year a Commemorative Symposium for the 15th Anniversary of the Remedios Caro Almela Chair had took place with the participation of the last five recipients of the prize and three leading researchers of the Institute including Dr. Eloísa Herrera, who gave the talk "Molecular mechanisms underlying the wiring of bilateral circuits".