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. He was born in Oviedo, on July 1st, 1943. 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. His laboratory carried out detailed studies of the ultrastructure of Harderian gland cells, and of various types of specialized neurosecretory neurons of the central nervous system of the hamster and other mammals. 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: He has been a representative of the University of Oviedo to the Royal Institute of Asturian Studies, the Social Council of the University, the Insertion Council of the Principality of Asturias, the Board of Trustees of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FYCIT), the Cu"lture Council" of Asturias, the Regional Research Commission , and the Council of Asturian Communities, of which he was vice president. Together with Gabino González-González, Álvarez-Uría wrote a biographical book about Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Work. Papers. His most cited peer-reviewed  c articles on the ultrastructure of secretory cells in mammals are.