The Spanish Broadcasting Society, with the collaboration of the City Council of Carmona, Fundación Cajasol, Mercadona, Foro Interalimentario, the University of Seville and the Ministry of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities, has awarded the 10th Edition of the Manuel Losada Awards Villasante.

The Innovation Research Award has gone to Esther Reina Romo, PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville and professor at the University of Mechanical Engineering since 2021. She has worked mainly in the field of biomechanics and mechanobiology to explore the biological response of bone tissue to mechanical stimulation in healthy and pathological conditions. Her award-winning work is titled 'Mechanical Engineering Applied to Bone Regeneration Processes '.

This line has constituted the main axis of its research carried out in the last 15 years, including animal experimentation, computational or in silico as well as mechanical characterization tests of the microstructure of bone tissue on a wide variety of biological scales. The results of these works are collected in more than 35 JCR publications and one patent.

Reina Romo obtained the third best academic record in the XXXIV class and completed her doctorate in 2010, with the extraordinary doctorate award and the award for the best doctoral thesis from the Seville City Council.

In the categories of scientific research and innovation, the jury was chaired by the rector of the US, Miguel Ángel Castro, and had the participation of Rogelio Velasco, Minister of Economic Transformation, Industry, Knowledge and Universities of the Junta de Andalucía. ; Julián Martínez, vice chancellor of Research at the US; Juan Ávila, mayor of Carmona; Francisco Galván, from the Activities Department of the Cajasol Foundation; Antonio Yélamo, director of Radio Sevilla and Cadena Ser Andalucía; Guillermo Antiñolo, director of the Assisted Reproduction Unit of the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital; Carmen Ortiz Mellet, professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Seville and Isabel Martínez, head of Advertising at Radio Seville, who has acted as secretary.

These awards aim to promote and recognize research activity in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, supporting the development of innovative initiatives that benefit society as a whole. The prizes are worth 24,000 euros.