Marçal Pastor-Anglada

Dr. Marçal Pastor-Anglada graduated in Biology in 1980 and obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 1985 from the University of Barcelona. From 1984 to 1986 he was an INSERM researcher at the CNRS Recherches sur l'Endocrinologie Moléculaire et le Developpement in Meudon-Bellevue (France). From 1989 to 1990 he was a Research Associate at the Department of Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (USA) and later (1997) Visiting Associate Professor at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). In 2007, he was Visiting Professor at the Molecular and Cellular Physiology Laboratory, School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago (Chile).

Since 2003 he has been Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona. He is Principal Investigator of the Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapies group, also a member of the Cell Plasticity and Metabolism Program of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB) and of the Program of Hepatic and Digestive Oncology of the CIBER EHD. In addition to his research work, Dr. Pastor-Anglada has solid experience in R&D management, currently being Director of IBUB.