Barcelona, 26 October 2009./ David Rodríguez-Arias, Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Salamanca, has won the Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation Prize for Research in Bioethics for his work Muerte cerebral y trasplante de órganos: aspectos internacionales y éticos (Brain death and organ transplants).
The journalism prize, now in its ninth year, has been awarded to the Barcelona Televisió programme, Einstein a la platja, for the feature, Adéu als gens omnipotents (Farewell to the omnipotent genes), broadcast on 1 November 2008.
The prizes, worth 6,000 euros and 3,000 euros, respectively, will be presented on Monday 27 October at the Institute of Continuing Education at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Four research grants, worth 5,000 euros each, will also be awarded.
The award ceremony will follow the Josep Egozcue Lectures, delivered this year by Ruth Macklin, Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Epidemiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
