2008/01/30

The researcher Francisco Blanco joins the Structural Biology Unit at CIC bioGUNE

The researcher Francisco Blanco has joined the Structural Biology Unit at CIC bioGUNE, where he has been working since December on the structural characterisation of proteins and on the protein-protein interactions involved in cellular adhesion, the remodelling of chromatin and DNA repair.

Francisco Blanco has both an BSc and a PhD in chemistry from Madrid University and earned his doctorate under the supervision of J.L. Nieto, at the CSIC Institute of Material Structure, in 1992. From 1993 to 1997 he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL, Heidelberg-Germany) with the team led by L. Serrano, before moving to the R. Tycko Laboratory at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda-USA), where he engaged in research as a Visiting Fellow for three years.

In the year 2000, he returned to Spain to work with M. Rico at the CSIC Rocalosano Institute of Chemistry and Physics, where he was involved in an international structural genomics project. In the year 2002 he won a Ramón y Cajal grant to work at the National Centre for Oncological Research (CNIO), leading a research team in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR).