Dr. Irene Marco-Rius from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, is awarded the Anatole Abragam Prize 2025 for her original contributions to hyper-polarized Magnetic Resonance in the field of biomedical imaging and spectroscopy and for pioneering the use of magnetic resonance to study cells grown on chips (“organ-on-a-chip” model), allowing the ex vivo metabolic assessment of disease mechanisms and therapy responses in a highly controlled microenvironment.