[1][2] Created in 2020 by the Fundación de Investigación HM Hospitales, it is awarded to the scientific or medical career of a person who has made a significant contribution to the protection, improvement or rehabilitation of people's health.

[3] The award, endowed with 100,000 euros,[4] is inspired by the Spanish surgeon Juan Abarca Campal, founder of HM Hospitales.

The Abarca Prize was awarded to Professor Jean-Laurent Casanova for his findings in the field of human infections and the genetic variations that affect a person's ability to fight them.

[2] Dr. Casanova is a researcher at Rockefeller University Hospital in New York and director of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics and Infectious Diseases.

[15] The CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor) cell therapy harnesses the body's own immune system to fight cancer.