<p>Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive an award for scientific excellence in developmental biology</p><p>An “inspiring” University of Cambridge scientist died in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/29/spain-mourning-period-deadly-train-crash">Spanish train collision</a> on Wednesday which killed at least 69 people.</p><p><a href="https://mrclmb.ac.uk/research-leaders/marta-shahbazi/">Dr Marta Shahbazi</a>, an affiliate associate professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and a group leader at the city’s Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), was travelling on one of the trains involved in the crash near Urda in Toledo province.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/tributes-marta-shahbazi-university-of-cambridge-scientist-spanish-train-crash">Continue reading...</a>
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Tributes paid to ‘inspiring’ University of Cambridge scientist who died in Spanish train crash
<p>Dr Marta Shahbazi was travelling to a conference to receive an award for scientific excellence in developmental biology</p><p>An “inspiring” University of Cambridge scientist died in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/29/spain-mourning-period-deadly-train-crash">Spanish train collision</a> on Wednesday which killed at least 69 people.</p><p><a href="https://mrclmb.ac.uk/research-leaders/marta-shahbazi/">Dr Marta Shahbazi</a>, an affiliate associate professor at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and a group leader at the city’s Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), was travelling on one of the trains involved in the crash near Urda in Toledo province.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/tributes-marta-shahbazi-university-of-cambridge-scientist-spanish-train-crash">Continue reading...</a>