Carlos Martin - Biography#
Carlos Martin MD, PhD. Since 2005 is Professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine at University of Zaragoza, Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Miguel Servet. He is member of the Steering Committee of Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) , with more than 30 years of experience in mycobacterial genetics and molecular epidemiology of TB. He and his team aim to develop novel tuberculosis vaccines and vaccination strategies to improve protection against pulmonary TB.
After ending his studies in Medicine in 1982, he focused my research in the understanding of the mechanisms of resistance in bacteria in the Department of Microbiology of University of Zaragoza under the direction of Professor Gomez-Lus. His postdoctoral studies were focused on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes by transposition between the chromosomes and plasmids in bacteria in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Cantabria under the Direction of Professor Juanma García-Lobo and Professor Fernando de la Cruz. In 1987, he came to Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he worked in the Unité de Génie Microbiologique (directed by Professor Julian Davies) and under the direct supervision of Professor Brigitte Gicquel, pioner of mycobacterial genetics, specializing in Bacterial Genetics and Molecular Biology of Mycobacteria and specializing in the study of the mechanisms of resistance in Mycobacteria and the mechanisms of pathogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Our research group currently works in collaborative TB research projects together with research groups of Europe, Africa and America. Our research has been continuously funded by National and European Union Research Programs TB research since 1992. Our research group belongs to CIBERES, a research network on respiratory diseases of the Spanish Ministry of Health (Instituto de Salud Carlos III).
Carlos Martin published 181 articles that have been cited more than 10,000 times with an h-index of 45. He has published more than one hundred eighty international publications cited more than 10.000 times in the last years.
