- SHE WAS APPOINTED EUROPEAN RESEARCHER 1999 BY UNESCO.

- APPOINTED
DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF SPAIN.
- PRESIDENT OF THE SEVERO OCHOA FOUNDATION
- SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE EXACT, PHYSICAL
AND NATURAL SCIENCES. -MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, SINCE
2003
- SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS
-MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
- SINCE 2007, SHE IS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF
THE USA
- SHE BELONGS TO THE EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION
- SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MICROBIOLOGY
- MARGARITA WAS ELECTED MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND
SCIENCES
- SHE WAS PART OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE MAX-PLANCK
INSTITUTE FOR MOLEKULARE GENETIK IN BERLIN
- SHE WAS PART OF THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE
- MARGARITA SALAS WAS PRESIDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF SPAIN
- SHE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH OF THE
GREGORIO MARAÑÓN HOSPITAL - SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CARMEN AND
SEVERO OCHOA FOUNDATION

AWARDS
MARGARITA SALAS WON THE L'ORÉAL-UNESCO FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE AWARD
FOR LAUREATES
MARGARITA SALAS HAS BEEN NAMED DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA BY TWELVE
UNIVERSITIES.
MADRID WOMAN'S WEEK INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WOMEN AND SCIENCE
AWARDED BY THE WOMAN'S WEEK FOUNDATION
AMONG MANY OTHER AWARDS...

DISCOVER
One achievement of her career, Margarita Salas has the discovery of the DNA polymerase
of the bacteriophage virus phi29, which has a crucial application in biotechnology: it allows to
amplify DNA in a simple and fast way.