Manuel Álvarez-Uría

Manuel Álvarez-Uría Rico-Villademoros is a Spanish cell biologist who held the presidency of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Principality of Asturias (Spain) for more than a decade until 2015. He has received some of the highest medical research prizes awarded in Spain.

Education He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Valladolid in 1966, further becoming a Doctor of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid, He completed further studies at the universities of Paris and Harvard.

Career From 1967 to 1977rom 1967 Álvarez-Uría was a professor of Histology at the Complutense and Autonomous Universities of Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Salamanca, and the University College of Toledo. In 1977 he was professor of Cytology at the University of Salamanc.

During his tenure in the vice-presidency and presidency of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Principality of Asturias, the institution created and consolidated the International Hippocrates Prize for Medical Research on Human Nutrition.

He has held the following administrative positions:

Work

Papers His most cited peer-reviewed articles on the ultrastructure of secretory cells in mammals are: National Research Award "Santiago Ramón y Cajal" (1973), received jointly with the researcher Gabino González González. for their ultrastructural investigations of the neuroendocrine system.