Esteve-Gassent Receives Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award
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COMOIACommunicationsNews2005 News ArchiveEsteve-Gassent Receives Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award
Each year, The University of Valencia rewards the best research among the graduate students by offering an Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award in different fields within sciences, engineering and humanities, with no more than 20 dissertations awarded per year. Only those students with the highest grades are eligible for such an honor, and the award is based, in part, on the presentation of their thesis, published papers, presentations at National and International meetings, previous awards and the overall impact of their research.
In the academic year 2003-2004, Dr. Esteve-Gassent defended her thesis in the field of natural sciences entitled “Vaccination against the vibriosis caused by V. vulnificus: development and validation of a protocol applicable to intensive eel farming and study of the immune response”. In the following academic year (2004-05), Dr. Esteve-Gassent was awarded the Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award in the field of natural sciences. The award will be given during the Official Opening of the Academic Year Ceremony September 23 in Main University, a building dating from the 15th century where the university started, located in downtown Valencia.
Dr. Esteve-Gassent has been at the A&M College of Medicine one and a half years and is working on the kinetics of infection of Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, in mutants that are lacking important host ligand binding proteins.
