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Prof. Francisco Escobar del Rey passed away in Madrid on the 16th December 2015 at the age of 92 years. He was born in Villaviciosa de Cordoba, Spain, of which he was a “Favorite son”. In the nineteen fifties he graduated from the Medical School of Granada. He completed his doctoral thesis on the administration of Iodized salt in the Iodine deficient region of “Alpujarras”, under the mentorship of Prof. Ortiz de Landazuri. From then his scientific career is inseparable from that of his wife, Prof. Gabriela Morreale.  They worked for several years at the University of Leiden with Prof. Andreas Querido. Upon their return to Spain in 1958, they founded the Thyroid Study Unit at the High Research Council. In 1974 they moved to the Autonomous University of Madrid, and were co-founders of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas. Prof. Escobar participated in numerous studies on thyroid gland physiology, and on thyroid hormone metabolism. He and Gabriela made fundamental contrib
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