• Valeria R Caiolfa y Moreno Zamai, CNIC, Madrid

• Ronen Alon, Weizmann Institute. Israel.

• Río J Aguilar y Arturo Evangelista, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron. Barcelona.

• Peter N Monk, University of Sheffield. United Kingdom.

• Juan Miguel Redondo, CNIC. Madrid.

• Francisco Lozano, Unidad de enfermedades infecciosas. Hospital Clinic, Barcelona.

• Francisco Domínguez y Carlos Simon, Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad. Valencia.

• Federico Mayor Jr., Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Eric Rubinstein , Hopital Paul Brousse. Villejuif, France

• Dietmar Vestweber, Max Planck Institute. Munster. Germany.

• Balbino Alarcón, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

• Manuel Fresno, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Alicia García Arroyo, CNIC. Madrid.

• Carl Figdor, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Netherlands

• Roberto González Amaro. UASLP, San Luis Potosí.

Education

 

School of Biological Sciences. Graduate and Licenciate in Biochemistry. 1972-1976.Universidad de Sevilla.

School of Biological Sciences. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 1977-1979.

Ph.D. in Biochemistry. 1980. Center for Molecular Biology “Severo Ochoa”.

 

Professional Experience

 

1977-1980. Fellow from Education and Science Spanish Ministry. Doctoral Thesis Ph. D. Work on function and biochemistry of ribosomal proteins. Centro de Biología Molecular. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

1980-1983. Postdoctoral Fellow from North-American Joint Committee for Science and Technology and from National Institute of Health (Fogarty Fundation). Structure and function of cell surface antigens involved in CTL-mediated cytotoxicity and leukocyte adhesion molecules. Research Fellow. Dept. Pathology. Dana-Farber Cancer Inst. Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. USA. 

1984. Independent Investigator. Allergy and Immunology Institute of Abelló, S.A. Monoclonal antibodies to human immunoglobulins E and main allergen molecules from different sources.

1985-1989. Assistant Professor Dept. Immunology Hospital de la Princesa. Biochemical and functional characterization of cell surface glycoproteins associated to the activation process of human T cells. Leukocyte adhesion receptors.

1990- Professor of Immunology. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Dept. Immunology. Hospital de la Princesa. Functional role of leukocyte adhesion and activation receptors in inflammation. Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating leukocyte polarity and migration, and their physiological relevance in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

 

Other appointments

 

Member Elected of EMBO. 1996.

Coordinator of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Section from FIS (Ministry of Health). 1998-2000.

Coordinator of BioMedicine National Program (Ministry Science and Technology). 2001-2005.

ERC Panel Member (2007-2010)