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Young Spanish researcher wins Opitz award

Investigator Award recognizes a paper identifying a new disorder that causes premature aging, like other progeria syndromes, but is distinct for its causative gene, set of symptoms, and patients’ longer lifespan. Given annually since 2002, the award honors Dr. Opitz, the journal’s founding Editor-in-Chief, one of the first physicians to recognize and correlate specific grouping of pediatric anomalies with heredity. The award recognizes work by a researcher who is younger than age 40 or has completed doctoral training within the past 10 years. The winning paper, by Ruben Cabanillas, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the Institute of Molecular and Oncological Medicine of Asturias (MOMA) in Spain, newly identifies Nestor-Guillermo progeria syndrome (NGPS) and explains how it is different from other progeria syndromes [2011]. The disorder is named for the two patients described in the paper, who are the first identified with the disorder.