RT Journal Article
T1 The Women Neuroscientists in the Cajal School
A1 Giné Domínguez, Elena
A1 Martínez Mora, María Del Carmen
A1 Sanz Miguel, María Del Carmen
A1 Nombela, Cristina
A1 Castro San Miguel, Fernando De
AB At the beginning of the 20th century, in view of the growing international recognition of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish authorities took some important steps to support Cajal’s scientific work. This recognition peaked in 1906, when Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Spanish government provided Cajal a state-of-the-art laboratory in Madrid to allow him to continue with his research and they funded salaries to pay his first tenured collaborators, the number of which increased further after the creation of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios (JAE). The JAE was an organism set up to help promising researchers develop their careers in different ways, thereby contributing to the development of science in Spain. Although largely forgotten or relatively unknown, there has been a recent revival in the recognition of the school that developed around Cajal, collectively referred to as the Spanish Neurological School (or colloquially, as the Cajal School or School of Madrid). Almost all Cajal’s collaborators were men, although a limited number of female scientists spent part of their careers at the heart of the Cajal School. Here we discuss these women and their work in the laboratory in Madrid. We have tracked the careers of Laura Forster (from Australia/United Kingdom), Manuela Serra, María Soledad Ruiz-Capillas and María Luisa Herreros (all Spanish), through their scientific publications, both in the journal founded by Cajal and elsewhere, and from other documentary sources. To complete the picture, we also outline the careers of other secondary figures that contributed to the production and running of Cajal’s laboratory in Madrid. We show here that the dawn of Spanish neuroscience included a number of contributions from female researchers who to date, have received little recognition.
PB Frontiers
SN 1662-5129
YR 2019
FD 2019-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88891
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/88891
LA eng
NO Giné Domínguez, E., Martínez Mora, M. C., Sanz Miguel, M. C., Nombela, C. & Castro San Miguel, F. «The Women Neuroscientists in the Cajal School». Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, vol. 13, julio de 2019, p. 72. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2019.00072.
NO Vicerrectorado de Calidad, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
NO Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional
NO Fundación Inocente Inocente
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 sept 2024