Tributes paid to ‘inspiring’ University of Cambridge scientist who died in Spanish train crash

Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive an award for scientific excellence in developmental biology

An “inspiring” University of Cambridge scientist died in the Spanish train collision on Wednesday which killed at least 69 people.

Dr Marta Shahbazi, an affiliate associate professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and a group leader at the city’s Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), was travelling on one of the trains involved in the crash near Urda in Toledo province.

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