• Paola Bovolenta, Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid

• Marian Ros, Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria. CSIC, Santander

• James Sharpe, Centro de Regulació Genómica. Barcelona

• Guillermo Oliver, St Jude Children’Research Hospital. Memphis

• Ginés Morata, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. CSIC, Madrid

• Francesco Blasi, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan

• Fernando Giráldez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Parque de Investigación Biomédica de Barcelona, Barcelona

• Eduardo Moreno, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, Madrid.

• Anastassia Stoykova, Kamal Chowdury, Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen

• Miguel Torres Sánchez
• Associate Director
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Miguel Torres received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1986, and was awarded his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1991. The subject of his doctoral studies, carried out in Lucas Sánchez’s laboratory (CIB-CSIC), was the genetic study of early Drosophila development. During his postdoc with Peter Gruss at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany), Miguel’s use of directed mutations in mice made an important contribution to elucidating the multiple functions played by the pax gene family during embryonic development. In 1996, Miguel was awarded the title of CSIC Research Scientist at the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología: CNB, Madrid), where he built an internationally recognized team specializing in the study of genetic mechanisms and cell signaling pathways implicated in vertebrate embryonic development. In 2004 he was named Head of the Department of Immunology and Oncology at the CNB, and in 2007 he moved his research group to the CNIC, where he took up the position of Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Developmental Biology, now the Department of Cardiovascular Development and Repair.

Since 2009, Miguel Torres has also occupied the post of Associate Director of the CNIC.