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Cambridge scientist Marta Shahbazi missing after Spain train crash
The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology said Dr. Marta Shahbazi was on a train in the Oct. 28 collision near Urda, Spain, and that her whereabouts were unknown, the BBC reported.
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Dr. Marta Shahbazi, a cell biologist who leads a research group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, was traveling on one of the trains in the Oct. 28 high-speed collision near Urda, south of Madrid, the laboratory said, according to the BBC1.
The LMB said her whereabouts were unknown1.
The University of Cambridge lists Shahbazi as an affiliate associate professor1.
She was traveling to an awards ceremony when the crash occurred, the BBC reported1.
Shahbazi had been named winner of a Spanish Society for Developmental Biology award for work on early human development and was due to receive it at the society's conference in El Rompido, Andalusia1.
Shahbazi completed a doctorate at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, later worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, and joined the LMB in 20201.
The collision occurred when a state-operated Renfe high-speed train struck the rear of a stationary Iryo train1.
At least 69 people were killed, the BBC reported1.
Spain declared three days of national mourning1.
More than 540 people were aboard the two trains, according to regional government spokesperson Esther Padilla, who said the Iryo train carried 146 passengers plus one baby and the Renfe train carried 397 passengers1.