Position:
Member at San Diego Tech Coast Angels, President, Founder CEO at RetroVirox Inc.
Work:
San Diego Tech Coast Angels
since Apr 2009
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Member
RetroVirox Inc.
since Nov 2007
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President, Founder CEO
La Jolla Institute For Molecular Medicine
Sep 2004 - Aug 2007
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Associate Professor
University of California San Diego
Jan 2000 - Aug 2004
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Associate Research Scientist
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
1998 - 2000
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Research Scientist
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sep 1995 - 1998
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Postdoctoral Scientist
Institut Pasteur
1995 - 1995
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Visiting Scientist
Centro de Biología Molecular
1990 - 1994
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Ph.D. Molecular Biology
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Jan 1992 - Dec 1992
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Visiting Scientist
Education:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1990 - 1994
Ph.D., Molecular Virology
State University of New York at Stony Brook 1992 - 1992
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1985 - 1990
BS, Molecular Biology - Biochemistry
Skills:
Virology, Molecular Biology, Drug Discovery, Infectious Diseases, HCV, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell Based Assays, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Genetics, Diagnostics, flow cytometry, Clinical, CRO, Immunology, Animal Models, Gene Therapy, Lifesciences, ELISA, Flow Cytometry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Assay Development, Cell Culture, Cell, Hardware Diagnostics, Biomarkers, High Throughput Screening, Protein Chemistry, Clinical Research, Proteomics
Interests:
Entrepreneurial activities
Investment opportunities
Partnership and collaboration opportunities
Executive Management
Virology
Drug Discovery
Biotechnology
Gene Therapy
Molecular Biology
Honor & Awards:
1988 Fellowship from Univ. Autónoma de Madrid
1989 Fellowship from Spanish Research Council
1990 Extraordinary Prize for the Master Thesis
1991 Fellowship from the Spanish Research Council
1991 Fellowship from “Fundación Caja Madrid”
1992 Grant Research Foundation of New York (SUNY, Stony Brook)
1994 Extraordinary Prize for Ph.D. Thesis on the Molecular Biology of Polioviruses
1995 EMBO Short-Term fellowship to work at the Institut Pasteur
1996 Fellowship Fundación Ramón Areces to work at the Salk Institute
1996 Fellowship Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
1999 Member, Center for AIDS Research, UCSD
2000 Member, UCSD Cancer Center
2001 Charter member, National Hispanic Science Network (USA)
2005 Member Minority Mentoring Program (American Association of Microbiology)
2006 Member, Editorial Board Retrovirology
2006-13 Ad hoc member NIAID NIH Study Sections committees: AIDS Discovery (ADDT); AIDS Molecular Biology; and several SBIR/STTR Study Sections