Ramon Gomis
Director of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS - August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute).
Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Academy of Europe, he has been director of the Fundació Clínic per la Recerca Biomèdica (Clinical Foundation for Biomedical Research) and also scientific head of the CIBERDEM (Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disorders) where he was engaged in research into diabetes and obesity. He has also been president of the Spanish Diabetes Society, among other official positions. As a result of his research findings he has published more than two hundred and fifty articles in prestigious publications, for example The Lancet or The New England Journal of Medicine. He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Creu de Sant Jordi (Saint George Cross), the Narcís Monturiol Medal for Scientific and Technological Merit, and the Spanish Diabetes Society Prize for Basic Diabetes Research.