Juan M. Garcia-Martinez presented with BJ Signal most-cited paper award

Juan M. Garcia-Martinez presented with BJ Signal most-cited paper award
Juan M. Garcia-Martinez presented with BJ Signal most-cited paper award

Juan M. Garcia-Martinez, until recently a postdoc in Dario Alessi's group, has been presented with the Biochemical Journal 'Signal' Paper of the Year 2011 award for the most-cited research article, his paper [i]'mTOR complex 2 (mTORC2) controls hydrophobic motif phosphorylation and activation of serum- and glucocorticoid-induced protein kinase 1 (SGK1)'[/i] having made the biggest contribution to the Biochemical Journal 2011 impact factor – see picture of Juanma with his award.

In this paper, published in December 2008, Juanma demonstrated that the mTOR complex 2 was the key regulator of SGK activity. This study has been cited 112 times.

Juanma is now working in the oncology division of Astrazeneca, developing new anti-cancer drugs.