Overview
- King took part in events in Oviedo during the week but was unable to attend Friday’s award ceremony in person due to an indisposition.
- In talks with students and researchers, she emphasized multidisciplinary collaboration and continual questioning as essential to biomedical progress.
- She outlined a developing hypothesis that some cancers lacking clear genotype–phenotype correlations may be explained by post‑translational protein modifications.
- Her landmark contributions include identifying BRCA1, showing humans and chimpanzees share roughly 98–99% of their DNA, and helping devise the high‑probability abuelidad index used by Argentine courts.
- Her forensic genetics work supported the creation of Argentina’s National Genetic Data Bank in 1987 and has informed identifications in countries such as Rwanda and El Salvador.