Virginia Sierra de la Torre awarded one of the extraordinary doctoral prizes awarded by the UPV/EHU 12 Jul 2023 Dr. Sierra-Torre developed a doctoral thesis on the topic “Autophagy and phagocytosis: functional relationship in microglia” within the Laboratory of Glial Cell Biology, under the supervision of the researchers Amanda Sierra Saavedra and Ainhoa Plaza Zabala.The results of this work was also published Epilepsia 2020 Nov;61(11):2593-2608 and Autophagy 2023 Jul;19(7):1952-1981. Virginia Sierra de la Torre, PhD (2022) Congratulations Virginia and supervisors, ZORIONAK!!