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A tragic train accident in Spain has claimed the life of Dr. Marta Shahbazi, a scientist affiliated with the University of Cambridge, confirmed by the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB). Dr. Shahbazi was aboard one of the trains involved in the collision near Urda, located south of Madrid. She was a prominent researcher leading her own group at the LMB, situated on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Dr. Shahbazi held the position of affiliate associate professor at the University of Cambridge and was renowned for her expertise in cell biology. The Spanish CiMUS institute, where her aunt María José Alonso works, honored her memory, describing her as a “brilliant young researcher” in a heartfelt social media statement. The scientist’s work had earned her a prestigious award from the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology, which she was set to receive at an upcoming conference in El Rompido, in the Andalusia region.
Her academic journey began with a PhD from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, after which she moved to the University of Cambridge for postdoctoral research before joining the LMB in 2020. The collision involved a Renfe-operated high-speed train that rammed into the rear of a stationary train run by the company Iryo, making it one of Europe’s deadliest rail accidents in recent years and the worst in Spain since 2013. Over 540 passengers were aboard the two trains combined.
Officials from Castilla-La Mancha, a region in the vicinity of the accident, confirmed the passenger details, with the Iryo train carrying 146 passengers plus an infant, while the Renfe train had 397 people on board. Following the disaster, the Spanish government declared three days of national mourning in remembrance of the victims
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