Ramon Trias Fargas Award for Research
The prize is named after Ramon Trias Fargas to honor the founder of the FCSD and chairman of the committee which, in 1982, drafted the Social Integration of the Handicapped Person Law (LISMI).
Ramon Trias Fargas died suddenly on October 22, 1989. The 500,000 Pta prize is awarded every two years, together with a bronze reproduction of the mother-and-child sculpture by Antoni Vancells.
To date, the prize-winning works have been:
2011
1st prize: Hipotiroidismo en la primera infancia en los pacientes con síndrome de Down, Dr. Cristina Claret i Torrents.
2009
1st prize: Perfil de la enfermedad celíaca en los pacientes con síndrome de Down, Drs. A. Rodríguez Martínez, B. Espín Jaime, A. González-Meneses López, M. González Fernández-Palacio, A. Pizarro Martín, I. Gómez de Terreros Sánchez
2nd prize: Leucèmia aguda limfoblàstica infantil i síndrome de Down: Anàlisi dels protocols SHOP/LAL-99 i 05, Dr. M. García Bernal
2007
1st prize: Use of standardised neuro-psychological batteries in adult subjects with Down's Syndrome and dementia, Drs. M. Boada, M. Alegret, M. Buendia, I. Hernández, G. Viñas, A. Espinosa, S. Lara, M. Guitart, Ll. Tàrraga.
2nd prize: Aging with Down's Syndrome: candidate genes for cognitive decline, Drs. M. Martínez de Lagrán, A. Bortolozzi, J. Gispert, O. Millán, F. Artigas, C. Fillat, M. Dierssen.
2005
Oxidative stress markers in Down's Syndrome, Drs. A. Casado, M.E. López-Fernández, R. Ruiz
2003
Alterations of the micro-architecture of the cerebral cortex in mouse TS65DN, a murine model of Down's Syndrome: the effects of environmental enrichment, Drs. M. Dierssen, R. Benavides-Piccione, C. Martínez-Cué, X. Extivill, J. Flórez, GN. Elston, J. De Felipe.
2001
A cytogenetic molecular study of Down Syndrome: genotype-phenotype correlations in six cases of partial chromosome 21 trisomy, Dr. M. Nadal, Down Syndrome Research Group, Medical and Molecular Genetics Centre of the Institut de Recerca Oncològica (IRO).
1999
Health in Down Syndrome Drs. R. Linares García-Valdecasas and A. Castro Lobera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
1997
Early detection of hearing loss in DS patients, Dr. C. López Soler, Universidad de Granada.
1995
Prize not awarded
1993
Early attention to expressive language in children with DS. A comparative study of development between groups with differing initiation times, Dr. F. Hurtado Murillo, Hospital La Fe, Valencia.
1991
Study of the frequency of DS in Spain. Importance of the temporospatial distribution in prevention, Dr. M. L. Martínez-Frías, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1989
Epidemiological analysis of trisomy 21. A cytogenetic, perinatologic and clinical study on patients with trisomy 21, Dr. M. A. Ibáñez Olías, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid.