• Rick Assoian, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

• Matthias Mann, MPI for Biochemistry. Martinsried (near Munich), Germany

• Reinhard Fässler, MPI for Biochemistry. Martinsried (near Munich), Germany

• Rob Parton, Institute for Molecular Bioscience. University of Queensland, Australia

• Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS). Bangalore, India

• Xosé Bustelo, CIC, Salamanca

• Manuel López-Cabrera, HUP-CSIC, Madrid

• Oscar Llorca, CIB, Madrid

• María Montoya, Cellomics Unit. CNIC, Madrid

• Miguel Torres, CNIC, Madrid

• Alicia G Arroyo, CNIC, Madrid

• Miguel A. del Pozo
• Group leader
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Miguel Ángel del Pozo graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Universidad de Valladolid in 1991, and then pursued a research career while specialising in Immunology at the Hospital de la Princesa in Madrid (1995). The subject of his PhD thesis (Department of Biochemistry, UAM, 1997) was the function of adhesion receptors and chemokines in cell polarisation and leukocyte migration in inflammation. During his postdoc tenure in the laboratory of Martin Schwartz (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 1998-2002) he contributed to elucidate the role of Rho-family GTPases in the regulation of intracellular signals by integrins, growth factors and mechanical stimuli. He later started his own group as Assistant Professor at Scripps, focusing on integrin signalling and plasma membrane heterogeneity in anchorage-dependent growth. He moved to CNIC as Junior Group Leader in 2004. At CNIC he studies the role of integrins, caveolin and Rho/Rac GTPases in membrane trafficking, cell migration and cell growth. In 2004 he received the EURYI (European Young Investigator) Award in Biomedicine, and in 2005 was elected by EMBO as member of the Young Investigator Programme (EMBO YIP). He gained an “Investigador Científico” (Senior Tenured Scientist) position at the CSIC in 2005. Since 2006 Del Pozo is Senior Group Leader at CNIC (level I), and since January 2007 he is Acting as Head of the Vascular Biology and Inflammation Department. In 2007 the SEBBM (Spanish Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) awarded him the Beckman Coulter distinction, for under-40 researchers.