{"id":12787,"date":"2025-07-01T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/actualitat\/noticies\/monica-bettencourt-dias-nova-directora-del-crg\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:59:17","slug":"monica-bettencourt-dias-nova-directora-del-crg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/monica-bettencourt-dias-nova-directora-del-crg\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00f3nica Bettencourt-Dias appointed new Director of the CRG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)\u2019s Board of Trustees has today appointed Professor Monica Bettencourt-Dias as its new Director. Professor Bettencourt-Dias is the first woman to lead the CRG since it was founded in the year 2000.<\/h3>\n<p>Professor Bettencourt-Dias, who led the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia (IGC) in Portugal between 2018 and 2023 and is currently Group Leader at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, is expected to take up the post in 2026. She succeeds the CRG\u2019s long-serving Director, ICREA Research Professor Dr Luis Serrano, who will continue to maintain a research group at the institute.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Portugal in 1973, Professor M\u00f3nica Bettencourt-Dias has built an international career at the forefront of cell and molecular biology. She completed her PhD at University College London investigating the regenerative properties of salamanders. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, she made key discoveries on cell proliferation, before returning to Portugal in 2006 to establish her research group at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12784 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cerca.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CRG_Monica_Bettencourt-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor Bettencourt-Dias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)\u2019s Board of Trustees has today appointed Professor Monica Bettencourt-Dias as its new Director. Professor Bettencourt-Dias is the first woman to lead the CRG since it was founded in the year 2000. Professor Bettencourt-Dias, who led the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia (IGC) in Portugal between 2018 and 2023 and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cerca-system"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M\u00f3nica Bettencourt-Dias appointed new Director of the CRG - CERCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/monica-bettencourt-dias-nova-directora-del-crg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M\u00f3nica Bettencourt-Dias appointed new Director of the CRG - CERCA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)\u2019s Board of Trustees has today appointed Professor Monica Bettencourt-Dias as its new Director. 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