Jorge Moscat#
| Membership Number: | 2385 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2013 Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego
- since 2013 Director, Cell Death and Survival Networks Program, NCI-Cancer Center, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
- 2008 - 2011 Professor and Chair, Department of Cancer and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- 2007 - 2008 Interim Chairman, Department of Genome Science/Molecular Oncogenesis, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- 2006 - 2008 Professor, Department of Genome Science, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- 2004 - 2006 Coordinator of Biology Institutes of the CSIC
- 1998 - 2002 Director of the Instituto de Biología Molecular, CSIC
- 1993 - 2006 Research Professor, Centro de Biologia Molecular, CSIC
- 1990 - 1993 Research Scientist, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular and cell biology of cancer and inflammation
- Control of stress in cancer cells
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Undergraduate Fellowship from Le Petit Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Dow Chemical Co.)
- 1981 Postgraduate Fellowship from the Spanish Education and Science Ministry
- 1982 Postgraduate Fellowship from the Spanish National Institute of Health
- 1984 Short-term Fellowship from Spanish Health Ministry, for studies in the Institute of Pharmacology "Mario Negri", Milano, Italy
- 1985 & 1986 Short-term Fellowships from the British Council to work at the Department of Biochemistry, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge, U.K.
- 1987 Long-term Fellowship from "Juan March" Foundation to work at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 1989 & 1991 Awards of the Spanish Cancer Scientific Association
- 1995 Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1998 Award of the Foundation for Health Sciences
- 1999 Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Award of the Carmen and Severo Ochoa Foundation
- 2001 Award of the Juan March Foundation
- 2002 Member of the Editorial Board of EMBO Journal
- 2002 Member of the Editorial Board of EMBO Reports
- 2006 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010-2012 Ad hoc member of NIH Cancer Molecular Pathobiology and Cancer Etiology Study Sections
- 2010 Member review panel NCI Cancer and Inflammation Program
- 2011 Member panel on NCI Provocative Questions (Salk Institute, La Jolla)
- 2012 - Permanent member of NIH Cancer Etiology Study Section
- 2012 Ad hoc member NIH Tumor Cell Biology Study Section
- 2012 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity of the Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany)
