Administration
Yolanda Olmos
Administration
PURCHASING
Head of Purchasing
Office Tel: +34 93 402 02 71
e-mail: yolanda.olmos
irbbarcelona.org
Xavier López Ramos
Administration
PURCHASING
Purchasing Officer
Office Tel: +34 93 403 47 18
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: xavier.lopezirbbarcelona.org
Vanessa Llobet
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Secretary
Structural & Computational Biology
Office Tel: +34 93 403 99 53
Fax: +34 93 403 99 76
e-mail: vanessa.llobetirbbarcelona.org
Tanya Yates
Administration
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Editorial Support
Office Tel: +34 93 403 99 97
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: tanya.yatesirbbarcelona.org
Sylvia Martínez Fidan
Administration
HUMAN RESOURCES
Head of Human Resources
Office Tel: +34 93 403 97 82
e-mail: sylvia.martinezirbbarcelona.org
Stel·la Serra
FINANCE
Projects and inventory
Office Tel: +34 93 403 70 59
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: stella.serrairbbarcelona.org
Sònia Armengou
Administration
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Media Relations
Office Tel: +34 93 403 72 55
e-mail: sonia.armengouirbbarcelona.org
Silvia Aguadé
Administration
HUMAN RESOURCES
Human Resources Technician
Office Tel: +34 93 403 72 90
e-mail: silvia.aguadeirbbarcelona.org
Sarah Sherwood
Administration
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Head of Communications
Office Tel: +34 93 403 46 36
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: sarah.sherwoodirbbarcelona.org
Sara Martorell
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Secretary
Oncology
Office Tel: +34 93 403 99 62
Fax: +34 93 403 99 60
e-mail: sara.martorellirbbarcelona.org
Sara López
Administration
PURCHASING
Purchasing
Office Tel: +34 93 403 97 73
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: sara.lopezirbbarcelona.org
Roberto Bartolomé
Administration
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Systems architect
Office Tel: +93 403 99 45
e-mail: roberto.bartolomeirbbarcelona.org
Natalia Molner
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Secretary
Molecular Medicine
Office Tel: +34 93 403 40 46
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 40 47
e-mail: natalia.molnerirbbarcelona.org
Miquel Coll
Professor (IBMB-CSIC)
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Coordinator
Structural & Computational Biology
e-mail: miquel.collirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Miquel Coll is the head of the Structural and Computational Biology Programme at the IRB Barcelona.
He obtained his degree in Biology in 1982 and his PhD in 1986 from the University of Barcelona. In 1986 he joined the laboratory of Prof. Alexander Rich at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked on the structural analysis of DNA. In 1989 he moved to the Max-Planck-Institut in Munich and worked, as a postdoc with Prof. Robert Huber, in the structural analysis of a number of proteins. In 1990 he started a protein crystallography research group at the CSIC. In 1999-2000 he spent a sabbatical year at the Grenoble Outstation of the EMBL.
Miquel Coll is presently a CSIC Professor and has been Deputy Director of the Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona from 2002 to 2006. In 2000 he was elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
Meritxell Gavaldà
Administration
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Conference Secretary
Office Tel: +34 93 40 34 955
e-mail: meritxell.gavaldairbbarcelona.org
Martha Elisabeth Brigg
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Secretary
Cell and Developmental Biology
Office Tel: +34 93 402 02 58
e-mail: martha.briggirbbarcelona.org
Maria Rovira
Administration
HUMAN RESOURCES
Human Resources Assistant
Office Tel: +34 93 402 02 50
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: maria.rovirairbbarcelona.org
Maria Estévez
Administration
DIRECTORATE
Directorate Secretary
Office Tel: +34 93 403 71 11
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: maria.estevezirbbarcelona.org
Margarita Navia
Administration
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Head of Research and Academic Administration
Office Tel: +34 93 403 47 16
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: margarita.naviairbbarcelona.org
Margarida Corominas
Administration
DIRECTORATE
Managing Director
Office Tel: +34 93 403 99 95
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: margarida.corominasirbbarcelona.org
Marco Milan
ICREA Research Professor
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Coordinator
Cell and Developmental Biology
Office Tel: +34 93 403 49 02
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 49 01
e-mail: marco.milanirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Marco Milán obtained his degree in Biology in 1991 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the laboratory of Antonio García-Bellido. In 1997 he joined the laboratory of Stephen Cohen, where he became Staff Scientist three years later at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg.
Since 2003 he holds an ICREA Research Professorship and leads the Developmental Biology of Drosophila group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.
Joan Massagué
IRB Barcelona // Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Administration
DIRECTORATE
Adjunct Director
Office Tel: + 34 93 403 99 62
Fax: + 34 93 403 99 60
e-mail: joan.massagueirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Joan Massagué (Barcelona, 1953) is Adjunct Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, in Barcelona. He is also Chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacy (Biochemistry) from the University of Barcelona in 1978, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, where he discovered the structure of the insulin receptor. In 1982 he became Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School until he assumed his current position in 1989.
Joan Massagué is interested in how growth factors, signalling pathways, and gene expression programs control normal cell behavior and cancer cell metastasis. Combining cell biology, biochemistry and genetics, he elucidated fundamental machinery that conveys TGF-b growth inhibitory signals from the cell membrane to the nucleus. An end result of this process, Massagué found, is the inhibition of cell division through novel CDK inhibitors that he co-discovered. His work provided a direct explanation for how external signals block mammalian cell division. These mechanisms are now known to be crucial in embryonic development, and their disruption causes tumor formation and metastasis.
Dr. Massagué has recently identified genes and mechanisms that mediate the ability of breast tumors to form metastasis in vital organs, answering long-standing questions and opening new avenues of investigation into this devastating aspect of cancer. Dr. Massagué is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Spanish Royal Academies of Medicine and Pharmacy, and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Joan J. Guinovart
Administration
DIRECTORATE
Director
Office Tel: +34 93 403 71 11
e-mail: joan.guinovartirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Born in 1947, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Education
Graduate in Chemistry and in Pharmacy (1969) from the University of Barcelona. Doctorate in Biochemistry (1973) from the same university. Specialist (Board certified) in Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Analysis. Post-doctoral stage in the Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Virginia (1974-75).
Appointments
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona (1975-1983) and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1983-1985). Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (1986-1990). Associate Dean Faculty, Veterinary Medicine, UAB (1984-1987). Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona (1990-present). Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco-UCSF (1992-93). Head of Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona (1995-2001). Member of the "External Faculty" of the Institute of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile (1997- present). Director General of the Barcelona Science Park (2001-2002) and Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) (2001-present).
Advisory Committees
Coordinator of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective Studies (ANEP) (1988-1991). Member of the study sections of the DGICYT (1988-1991), FIS (1988-1997) and CICYT (National Health Programme)(1997). Member of the Advisory Committee of the Directorate General on Scientific Policy of the Basque Government (1990-1992, 1994-1997). Member of the Commission on Basic Sciences and Clinical Laboratories of the CCECS, Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia)(1993-2003). Member of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1999-2003). Member of the Advisory Council on Science and Technology, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (2006-2008).
Services to societies
President of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) (1996-2000). President of the Organizing Committee of the European Congress on Biochemistry (FEBS 1996, Barcelona). FEBS Meetings Counsellor and Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) (1997-2005). Member of the Nomination Committee (2000-2003), the Education Committee (2000-2005) and the Symposia and Interest Groups Committee (2005-present) of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). President of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies (COSCE) (2004-present). President of the Spanish National Committee of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Adhering Body of IUBMB) (2005- present).
Editorial experience
Editorial Adviser, Biochem. J. (London) 1992-1998. Chief Editor of SEBBM magasine (1996-present),Editor IUBMB Life (2006-present). Ad Hoc reviewer for Arch. Biochem Biophys., Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Eur. J. Biochem. (FEBS J), FEBS Letters, Diabetes, Diabetologia, and others.
Research activity
Focuses on glycogen metabolism, with special attention to the study of the alternations in carbohydrate metabolism in diabetes and Lafora disease. Has directed 28 doctoral theses and published over 120 articles on the subject.
Awards
"Leandre Cervera" (1979 and 1985) and "August Pi i Sunyer" (1983) from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Catalan Academy of Arts and Sciences). "Novo-Nordisk" in Basic Diabetological Research from the Spanish Society of Diabetes (1996). Medal from the "Société Française de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire" (1998). Scientific Research Prize "Ciutat de Barcelona"(1998). "PABMB Conference Award", San Francisco, CA (1999). Medal “Narcís Monturiol” from the Generalitat de Catalunya for scientific and technological merit (1999). Argentinean Biochemical Society “Alberto Sols” Conference Award (2000). Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2005). Corresponding Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2006). Full Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Pharmacy (2006). FEBS Diplôme d’honneur (2007).
Jesús Sánchez
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Systems administrator
Office Tel: +34 93 403 47 70
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: jesus.sanchezirbbarcelona.org
Francisco Lozano
Administration
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Head of ITS
Office Tel: +93 403 99 43
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: francisco.lozanoirbbarcelona.org
Eva Poca
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Secretary
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Office Tel: +34 93 403 71 24
Fax: +34 93 403 71 26
e-mail: eva.pocairbbarcelona.org
Ernest Giralt
Professor (Organic Chemistry Dept.- UB)
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Coordinator
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Office Tel: +34 93 403 71 25
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 71 27
e-mail: ernest.giraltirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Group leader of a Research Group in the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, in the Barcelona Science Park, where he is the Head of the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Programme. Graduate (B.Sc.) in Chemistry (1970) from the University of Barcelona, Spain, Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Chimie Organique (1974) from the University of Montpellier, France, and Ph.D. in Chemistry (1974) from the University of Barcelona, Spain. In 1986, he became Professor at University of Barcelona. In 1990 he was a visiting Professor at the University of California San Diego, and Research Associate at the Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, USA.
His major interests lie in the field of peptide synthesis and structure determination, in particular using NMR to the study of complex molecular recognition processes, with emphasis on the design of specific ligands for interaction with protein surfaces, related to possible therapeutic uses.
He has published around 325 papers, 10 patents, review articles and three books. Among others, he received the Narcís Monturiol Prize in 1992, the Leonidas Zervas award in 1994, the Distinction Research Chair, Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001, the NMR prize, GRMN of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society in 2002 and the Research National Prize and Medal, Spanish Royal Chemical Society in 2003.
Elisava de la Hoz
Administration
FINANCE
Accounting Officer
Office Tel: +34 93 402 02 38
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: elisava.delahozirbbarcelona.org
Eduard Batlle
ICREA Research Professor
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Coordinator
Oncology
Office Tel: + 34 93 4039008
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 90 07
e-mail: eduard.batlleirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Since 2004, working as a Research Professor at ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) and Principal Investigator and Programme Coordinator at the Applied and Transnational Oncology Programme (ATOP) at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine – Parc Científic de Barcelona (IRB Barcelona-PCB).
1994-1999 PhD fellow at Institut Municipal de Investigació Mèdica (IMIM). 1993 BSc. Universitat de Barcelona. 1999: Associate professor in Biochemistry –Life Siciences at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 1999- 2000 PostDoctoral Fellow at Miguel Beato’s group- Institut für Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung, Marburg. Germany. 2000-2004: PostDoctoral Fellow at Hans Clevers Lab, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Utrecht, NL.
Research activity in the last ten years has focused on the characterization of the mechanisms that drive colorectal cancer initiation and progression. Among other findings, Eduard Batlle originally discovered the transcription factor Snail as a suppressor of E-cadherin expression in tumor cells and more recently the role of EphB receptors in colorectal cancer. His articles published in the last six years have been quoted more than 800 times and have received several reviews and comments in prestigious journals.
David Villanueva
Administration
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
Systems Administrator
Office Tel: +34 93 403 99 44//45
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: david.villanuevairbbarcelona.org
Clara Caminal
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Academic Officer
Office Tel: +34 93 403 48 06
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: clara.caminalirbbarcelona.org
Antonio Zorzano
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. - UB)
Administration
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES
Programme Coordinator
Molecular Medicine
Office Tel: +34 93 403 71 97
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 47 01- +34 93 403 71 99- +34 93 4037198
e-mail: antonio.zorzanoirbbarcelona.org
Research group
Graduate (M.Sc.) in Biology (1978) from the University of Barcelona. Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1982) from the same university. Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Prof. Emilio Herrera, Research Dept, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid (1982-83). Research Associate, Laboratory of Prof. Neil B. Ruderman, Dept. of Medicine, Boston University (1983-86). Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, University of Barcelona (1986-1991). Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Prof. Paul F. Pilch, Dept. of Biochemistry, Boston University Medical School, (1988). Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona (1991-present). Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Prof. Paul F. Pilch, Dept. of Biochemistry, Boston University Medical School, (1992). Member of different Advisory Commitees.
Research activity focussed on the biology of glucose transporters and on the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms implicated in the development of insulin resistance, obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Has directed 20 doctoral theses, published over 160 articles (PubMed) and he has received 1,500 citations in 52 articles in the last 10 years (28.9 citations per article) in the field of Biology-Biochemistry (ISI Essential Science Indicator, ISI Web of Knowledge). Research activity has led to the filing of 10 patents, eight of them in exploitation by different companies.
He has co-founded several biotechnological companies. “Boehringer Award” from the Spanish Biochemical Society (1991). Young Investigator “Lilly” Award of the Spanish Society of Diabetes (1992). Research Award, Autonomous Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2001)
Anna Alsina
Administration
COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Information & Publications
Office Tel: +34 93 403 45 69
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: anna.alsinairbbarcelona.org
Alex Puerto
FINANCE
Head of Finance
Office Tel: +34 93 403 98 10
Fax: +34 93 403 71 14
e-mail: alexandre.puertoirbbarcelona.org
Adriana Grosu
RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Project Officer, European Projects
Office Tel: +34 93 402 04 50
e-mail: adriana.grosuirbbarcelona.org
