Scientist Marta Shahbazi among victims of Toledo train derailment
Marta Shahbazi Alonso, a 41-year-old scientist of Leonese origin, who led a group at the Molecular Biology Laboratory of Cambridge, is among the fatalities of the train accident that occurred on Wednesday in Urda (Toledo).
Marta was traveling in car 8 of the AVE train bound for the 19th Congress of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology, which began that same day in El Rompido (Huelva), where she was to receive an award for scientific excellence.
The Singular Research Center in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases of the University of Santiago confirmed the news late yesterday through its social networks, with a statement expressing its “support and affection” for one of its researchers, María José Alonso, the scientist’s aunt.
Regarding Marta Shahbazi, the CiMUS stated that “she was a brilliant young researcher, leader of a group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and an associate professor affiliated with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at the University of Cambridge.”
Also traveling on the same car of the same train and bound for the same congress was Tamara González Costa, another scientist of Leonese origin, specifically from Bembibre, aged 31. Her death was confirmed yesterday. Tamara was traveling in seat 12B of car 8 of the AVE train and, after the accident, her relatives had no news of her until Saturday, when the tragic outcome was confirmed.
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“Confirmada la muerte de la científica de origen leonés Marta Shahbazi en el accidente de tren de Urda (Toledo)”
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