Pura Muñoz-Cánoves#
| Membership Number: | 4860 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.upf.edu/cellbiology |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 PhD in Biological Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Work performed at the Scripps Research Institute
- 1990 - 1991 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
- 1992 - 1994 Postdoctoral fellow, The Scripps Research Inst., CA, USA
- 1994 - 1996 Research Associate, Cancer Research Institute (IRO), Barcelona, Spain
- 1997 - 2001 Group leader, Cancer Research Institute (IRO), Barcelona, Spain
- 2002 - 2007 Group leader, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- 2007 - 2008 Senior Group leader, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- 2008 - present ICREA Senior Research Professor
- 2010 - present Full Professor of Cell Biology and Principal Investigator, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
- 2016 - present Principal Investigator, Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Center, Madrid, Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular senescence in aging muscle
- Inflammation and fibrosis in muscle regeneration and muscular dystrophy
- Circadian rhythms in stem cells
- Stem cells in adult muscle regeneration and hypertrophic adaptive growth
- Muscle stem cells in aging
Honours and Awards
- 1993 Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship (1990), FIS fellowship
- 2009 Full Professor of Cell Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University (after competitive examination)
- 2005 - present Group of Excellence Award from the Catalan Government (AGAUR)
- 2007 - present Group of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)
- 2014 City of Barcelona Award on Life Sciences
- 2016 City of Gandia-Ser Award on Scientific Research
- 2015, 2017 La Vanguardia National Science Award
- 2015 Pfizer Award on Basic Research in Biomedicine
- 2015 Elected EMBO Member
- 2017 Narcís Monturiol Medal to Scientific and Technologic Merit from Catalan Government
- 2017 ERC Advanced Grant
