José López-Barneo#
| Membership Number: | 1793 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Director of the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University of Seville/Spanish Research Council/University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain.
- 2006 - 2010 Director of CIBERNED, Spanish Network of Excellence for Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases.
- 1999 - present Director of Research, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío. University of Seville Medical School
- 1997 - 2001 Department Chairman, Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
- 1987 - 1990 Department Chairman, Physiology, Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
- 1986 - present Full Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
- 1982 - 1985 Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
- 1979 Assistant Professor. Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
- 1975 - 1978 Instructor of Physiology. Fellow of the "National Plan for the Training of Research Personnel". Department of Physiology, University of Seville Medical School
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegeneration and neuroprotection stems
- Neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease
- Oxygen sensing pathophysiology
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Award of the University of Seville to the M.D and Ph. D. Theses
- 1993 National Research Award “King Juan Carlos I” in Science and Technology
- 1994 Medal of the Andalusian Government
- 1994 Wellcome Visiting Professorship Award. University of Minnesota. USA
- 1998 National Research Award “King Jaime I” in Science and Technology
- 2000 National Research Grant of the Juan March Foundation
- 2002 Research prize "Maimónides" awarded by the Andalusian Government
- 2003 Honorary Lecture "Teófilo Hernando", Autonomous University of Madrid
- 2003 National Research Prize of the Lilly Foundation
- 2003 Medal of the Spanish Ministry of Health
- 2004 Member of the “Real Academia de Ciencias de Sevilla”
- 2005 Corresponding member of the “Real Academia Española de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales”
- 2006 Research prize Javier Benjumea awarded by the Focus-Abengoa Foundation
- 2009 Prize FAMA to the Research Career by the University of Seville
- 2010 Award Medal and Lectures “Chair Grisolía”, Foundation “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias”, Valencia
- 2010 Honorary Lecture “Carmen and Severo Ochoa”, Foundation “Carmen and Severo Ochoa”, Madrid
- 2012 Member of the “Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugía de Sevilla”
