Carme Caelles: Cell Signalling

Carme Caelles

Group Leader
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. - UB)
Office Tel: +34 93 40 37130
Lab Tel: +34 93 403 71 31
e-mail: carme.caellesirbbarcelona.org

Born in Reus (Spain), in 1961.

Graduate (M.Sc.) in Pharmacy (1984) from the University of Barcelona. Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1989) from the same university. Distinction from the Catalan Autonomous Government to junior scientific investigators (2002).

Research Associate, Laboratory of Dr. M. Karin, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of California at San Diego (1993-94). Post-doctoral Investigator, Laboratory of Dr. A. Muñoz, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spanish Research Council (1994-1997). Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona (1997-present). Group Leader of the Institute for Research in Biomedicina, at the Barcelona Science Park (IRB Barcelona) (2002-present).

Coordinator of the Cell Signalling Group of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) (2001-2005).

Currently, her research activity is focused on the mechanisms mediating the cross-talk among some nuclear hormone receptors, in particular the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and the peroxisome-proliferators activated receptor (PPAR) γ, and the mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), and on the analysis of the hormone actions mediated by these interactions, such as the anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic actions of glucocorticoids and thiazolidinediones, respectively. She has supervised 2 doctoral thesis and published 28 articles cited in Med-Line.

Lectures by invitation

VII Congress of the Spanish Association for Cancer Investigation (ASEICA), 1997, Oviedo; XX Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), 1997, Madrid; II Spanish Meting on Gene Transcription, 1998, Cordoba; VIII Congress of the Spanish Association for Cancer Investigation (ASEICA), 1999, Sitges; XXII Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), 1999, Pamplona, XXVII Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), 2004, Lleida