Draft:Lluis Ribas de Pouplana
Lluis Ribas de Pouplana
Biography
Lluis Ribas obtained a B. Sc. in Biology from the University of Barcelona in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh. After the completion of his doctoral studies he was hired as a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993-97). From Cambridge, he moved to San Diego, where he accepted a Senior Research Scientist position and, in 2001, an Assistant Professorship of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute. In June 2003 he accepted an ICREA Research Professorship, and became a principal investigator at the Barcelona Institute for the Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).
Research
His research is focused on the mechanisms of protein synthesis in human pathogens, in particular the roles of an essential family of proteins in the causing agents of Malaria, Chagas disease, Amebiasis, and bacterial meningitis. These diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality in third-world countries and are in need for new therapeutic approaches. In addition, Dr. Ribas has co-funded two biotech companies: Agrobiosys Ltd. and Omnia Molecular Ltd. Omnia is a recent start-up that plans on taking drug-screening technology being developed in the Ribas laboratory to an industrial setting.
Awards
- La Caixa/British Council fellowship (1989-91).
- Fellow of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Edinburgh (1992-93).
- Postdoctoral Scientist, Dept. of Biology, MIT 1993-1997.
- Postdoctoral fellow of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1995-96).
- Senior Research Scientist, TSRI (1997-2001).
- Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, TSRI (2001-03).
- ICREA Research professor (2003).
References
External links
Lluis Ribas laboratory [1]
