• COST Action BM0805: Hox and TALE transcription factors in development and disease
  Chair: Miguel Torres
  http://www.cnic.es/bdc/webcost/

• Proyecto RETICS TERCEL
  http://www.red-tercel.com/index.php

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.