Cesar de la Fuente#
© Mart. E. Berenguer
| Membership Number: | 7597 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2005-5629 |
| X: | @delafuentelab |
| Bluesky: | @delafuentelab.bsky.social |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesardelafuentenunez/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=N2OdcFYAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate |
Present and Previous Positions
- 04/2019 Postdoc Synthetic Biology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - USA
- 09/2015 Postdo Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC - Canada
- 11/2014 Ph.D. Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC - Canada
- 06/2009 M.Sc. Biotechnology, University of Leon, Leon, Castilla y Leon - Spain
- 06/2009 B.Sc. Biotechnology, University of Leon, Leon, Castilla y Leon - Spain
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital biology
- Antibiotics
- Synthetic biology
- Bioengineering
- Molecular design
- Peptide design
- Machine intelligence
- Computational biology
- Microbiology
- Biochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2026 Nature Research Advisory Council
- 2026 Royal Society of Biology Fellow (FRSB)
- 2026 Honorary Doctorate, University of Leon
- 2025 Rafael Hervada Award for Biomedical Research
- 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
- 2025 Life Sciences Seminar Lecture
- 2025 Falling Walls Finalist Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2025 in Engineering & Technology
- 2025 Sloan Fellow
- 2025 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
- 2025 EMBS Distinguished Lecturer
- 2024 Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award
- 2024 Michael S. Brown New Investigator Research Award
- 2024 Advisor to the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria for the U.S. National Action Plan on Combating Antibiotic Resistance
- 2024 Fleming Prize
- 2024 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research
- 2024 Selected as the 25 Visionaries Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence by Newsweek
- 2024 Miklós Bodanszky Award
- 2024 Named Laboratory at Universidad de León
- 2024 Alumni of Honor, Universidad de León
- 2024 Selected as member of the Global Young Academy
- 2024 Journal of Nanobiotechnology Rising Star Award
- 2023 Invited to the Scientific Advisory Board of Keystone Symposia
- 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
- 2023 Selected as Keystone Symposia Fellow
- 2023 Joseph Priestley Society Lecture
- 2023 Elected member, Royal Academy of Pharmacology (Galicia). Only 42 members elected since 2003.
- 2023 National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar
- 2023 National Prize in Biotechnology (VI Edition, Premios Españoles Nacionales de Tecnología)
- 2023 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- 2023 Selected by Quincemil Newspaper as one of 15 Galicians changing the world
- 2023 Rao Makineni Lectureship Award
- 2023 Forbes 23 Spanish Change Makers for 2023
- 2022 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
- 2022 Judith H. Greenberg Early Career Investigator Lecture at NIH.
- 2022 Molecules Young Investigator Award
- 2022 Invited to join the Oxford Global Key Opinion Leaders Advisory Board
- 2022 IJMS Young Investigator Award
- 2022 Young Investigator Award from the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
- 2021 Forbes Top 50 Awarded Spanish individuals
- 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
- 2021 Innovator Award from Diario de León
- 2021 Con Voz Galega Ambassador for Lagar de Cervera
- 2021 Forbes top 100 most creative Spanish individuals
- 2021 ASM Award for Early Career Applied and Biotechnological Research
- 2021 Antibiotics Young Investigator Award
- 2021 IEEE EMBS Academic Early Career Achievement Award
- 2021 Elected member of the Spanish Young Academy
- 2021 Thermo Fisher Award
- 2021 IADR Innovation in Oral Care Awards
- 2021 Princess of Girona Prize
- 2021 AIChE Delaware Valley Section (DVS) Outstanding Faculty Award
- 2021 Waksman Foundation Lecturer
- 2021 ASM Distinguished Lecturer
- 2021 Edwin Schultz Lecture, Stanford University
- 2021 Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40
- 2021 Sigma Xi Member
- 2021 Galician of the Year- El Correo Gallego
- 2021 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) CMBE Rising Star Award
- 2020 Talento Joven e Innovador, Universidade da Coruña
- 2020 Honorific Member, Colombian Society of Chemical Engineers
- 2020 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Award
- 2020 NIH MIRA investigator
- 2020 Selected by the US National Academies to serve on the committee to “Examine the long-term health and economic effects of antimicrobial resistance in the US”
- 2020 AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award
- 2020 Nemirovsky Prize
- 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award
- 2020 30 Rising Leaders in the Life Sciences by In Vivo magazine
- 2020 ACS Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry lecture award.
- 2020 Selected as Scialog Fellow
- 2019 Langer Prize
- 2019 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers Young Investigator Award
- 2019 Named one of the “World’s Top Innovators Under 35” by MIT Technology Review
- 2019 Named GEN Top 10 Under 40
- 2019 Awarded a Presidential Professorship Chair by the University of Pennsylvania
- 2018 Named a Wunderkind by STAT News
- 2017 ACS Nano Junior Fellow
- 2016 MIT Technology Review Innovator “Under 35” (Spain)
- 2016 “30 Under 30” Latino Boston
