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Despite being a disciple of a prestigious family (his father was the archaeologist Antonio García-Bellido and his maternal grandfather was the philologist Vicente García de Diego), Antonio García-Bellido (Madrid, 1936) has made his own career, becoming one of the most internationally acclaimed Spanish scientists. He loved the arts, and it is not surprising, as his name 'send him'this way, but he preferred everything about the origin of life. Gradually, then, science began to enter his life. The result of these interests is his graduation in biological sciences at the University Complutense of Madrid in 1958 and obtaining his doctorate in science at the same university in 1962.

García-Bellido soon went abroad to continue his studies. He first landed at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), then at the Zoological Institute of Zurich (Switzerland) and, finally, at the Technological Institute of California (United States), where he also worked.

Back in Spain he began his career as a research professor of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (1974). He also became director of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics from the Institute of Genetics and Anthropology of the same centre. During this time, it is also worth mentioning his close relationship with Severo Ochoa, who was a great friend. It was with him and other prestigious researchers of the time the he founded in 1975, the Centre for Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa (CBMSO), of which in 1980 he became director. He is currently honorary linked professor, and directs the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics.

His professional work has given him real satisfaction. His passion has been developmental genetics and cell differentiation, with which he has made new especially relevant contributions which have given him prestige and international recognition. In fact, his theory of selective genes and genetic hierarchies has opened the way for better understanding of the genetic mechanism of differentiation and morphogenesis of living beings, his chosen field.

He has many acknowledgements, as his great work as populariser has reached worldwide, through lectures, writing in journals and publishing books. He has won many prizes, such as the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica in 1984, the National Research Award Santiago Ramon y Cajal in 1995 or the National Genetics Award from the Spanish Society of Genetics (SEG) in 2009.

He has also had the privilege of receiving the honorary doctorates by the Academy of Science from the USSR (1990) and the universities of La Corunya (1996), Barcelona (1997), Oviedo (1997), Salamanca (1998) and Alicante (2001). And he has also formed and is part, as chairman or member, of numerous societies, councils and national and international scientific centres, like for example that of foreign member of the Academies of Sciences of the United States (1985) and France (1995), the Royal Society of London (1986), of the European Academy of Sciences (2004) or the Presidency of Honour of the Spanish Society of Developmental Biology.
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Gloria Jones 23/07/2010
Dear Antonio: Firstly Many Congratulations!!!! William Gareth Jones from Imperial College London (still there)& Gloria Delgado Garces (then at PCC) met you the 21 March 1967 during a trip arranged by the Pasadena Rotary Club.You & Gareth were at Caltech. Gareth & I (Gloria) married in 1968 there and have been living in London since then. I have a couple of photos of you from that time! Would you like me to send them to you via email? Kind regards from both of us, Gloria Apologies for writing through this mean and dismiss it if not appropriate.

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