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Monday May 26, 2025 at 21:00

A doctoral student from the URJC receives an award for best presentation at a health conference.

A doctoral student from the URJC receives an award for best presentation at a health conference. A doctoral student from the URJC receives an award for best presentation at a health conference.

Blanca Silvan Ros, who is developing her thesis within the framework of the Doctoral Program in Health Sciences at the Rey Juan Carlos University, has been awarded the first prize for the best oral communication in the "PhD Molecular Research" category at the international congress '21st International and 63rd Polish Conference Youth Pro Medicina', held from May 15 to 18, 2025, in the city of Łodź (Poland).

Writing/Raúl García Hémonnet

This recognition comes at a key moment in her training, as her thesis is currently undergoing an international joint supervision agreement between the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Medical University of Łodź (UMED), allowing her to conduct part of her research at both centers.

The conference, organized by UMED, brought together young researchers from multiple biomedical disciplines, with the aim of promoting scientific excellence and international exchange among doctoral students.

Blanca presented her work entitled 'Impact of a pro-inflammatory cocktail stimulating COVID-19-like molecular pathways on gastrointestinal motility in a preclinical model in aged rats'. It uses an experimental model developed at the Rey Juan Carlos University, administering a pro-inflammatory cocktail that simulates the cytokine storm associated with COVID-19, to study how severe inflammatory processes affect the gastrointestinal system. Although the model has been validated in rats of different ages, on this occasion, the results obtained in aged animals were presented, using serial contrast-enhanced X-rays to detect alterations in gastrointestinal transit.

This work is part of the SC-LEARNING-CM (REACT-CAM-EU) project, which focuses on the search for new therapeutic strategies to mitigate the effects of systemic inflammation in situations such as sepsis or SARS-CoV-2 infection.

In addition to Blanca Silvan Ros, the work is co-authored by researchers David Benítez-Álvarez, Felipe Barragán del Caz, Sara Pascual-Marina, Maria Diez-Clemente, Jose Luis Rojo Álvarez, Sergio Muñoz-Romero and Raquel Abalo, Blanca's thesis advisor and coordinator of the High Performance Research Group in Pathophysiology and Pharmacology of the Digestive System at the URJC (NeuGut-URJC).

An international trajectory from translational biology

A biology graduate, Blanca Silvan Ros is currently developing her doctoral thesis focused on preclinical models of sepsis and COVID-19. Her line of research seeks to understand how severe inflammatory processes affect peripheral organs such as the gastrointestinal tract, in order to identify therapeutic strategies that improve the prognosis of the most vulnerable patients. “It has been very special to be able to represent the URJC outside of Spain and see how the work we do is valued in this way internationally,” Blanca concluded.

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