Salvador Ventura#
| Membership Number: | 6850 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://ibb.uab.cat |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9652-6351 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011,07- to date Chair Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- 2005,03 - to date Group Leader (Protein Folding and Conformational Diseases) at Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina (UAB)
- 2017,03 - 2020,03 Director of the Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina (UAB)
- 2006,02 - 2011,02 Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UAB)
- 2003,01 - 2006,01 Ramon y Cajal Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UAB)
- 1999,04 - 2021,03 Postdoctoral Researcher, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg (Germany)
- 1997,09 - 2023,08 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UAB)
- 1992,05 - 1998,04 PhD Student. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (UAB)
- 1996,01 - 1996,07 Research Visitor. Dept. of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Tor Vergata University, Rome (Italy)
- 1992,08 - 1992,12 Research Visitor at Dept. of Immunology of the Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
Fields of Scholarship
- Amyloid structure
- Bioinformatics
- Anti-aggregation drug discovery
- Protein misfolding and aggregation
- Amyloid fibrils
- Protein design, self-assembly and nanotechnology
- Protein folding
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Narcís Monturiol Medal, Generalitat de Catalunya, for his contribution to scientific progress in Catalonia
- 2021 Prize Research Transference, Social Council Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
- 2020 Bruker Prize "Manuel Rico", Spanish Biophysical Society (3.000 EUR), for his extraordinary scientific trajectory in understanding the mechanisms of protein folding and aggregation and their connection with disease
- 2020 ICREA-ACADEMIA Award in Life and Medical Sciences. ICREA-Generalitat de Catalunya. (200.000 EUR)
- 2015 ICREA-ACADEMIA Award in Life and Medical Sciences. ICREA-Generalitat de Catalunya. (200.000 EUR)
- 2009 ICREA-ACADEMIA Award in Life and Medical Sciences. ICREA-Generalitat de Catalunya. (250.000 EUR) (One of the five researchers who got the ICREA-ACADEMIA Award three times in Life and Medical Sciences)
- 2015 MAP EADA-ACCIÓ Award (EADA-Generalitat de Catalunya) to top-five projects for technology companies
- 2015 1st Prize “Think Tank” from the Reference Network in Biotechnology, Generalitat de Catalunya (11.500 EUR)
- 2008 Research Excellence Award, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (6.000 EUR)
- 2007 Award for the intensification of the research activity of young investigators, Generalitat de Catalunya (90.000 EUR)
