GoKawiilTrain crash near Urda kills developmental biologists Marta Shahbazi Alonso and Tamara González Costa
Marta Shahbazi Alonso, 41, a stem-cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and Tamara González Costa, 31, a postdoc at Vienna's Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, died in a high-speed rail collision near Urda, Spain on 28 October. The crash killed 69 people and injured more than 100; both scientists were travelling to a developmental biology conference in El Rompido, where Shahbazi Alonso was due to receive an award for her work on human embryo development.