Francisco Sanchez-madrid PhD

Dr. Sánchez-Madrid studied Bachelor (1976) at the University of Seville and Doctorate (1979) in Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He began his research career in 1977, at the Molecular Biology Center addressing the biochemical and functional study of ribosomal proteins of eukaryotic organisms, in the group of Dr. JP García Ballesta and David Vázquez. In 1980 he moved to Harvard University, to the Department of Pathology, and worked under the direction of Dr. TA Springer in the molecular mechanisms of cytotoxicity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and receptors involved in intercellular adhesion processes.

In 1985, he began as an Independent Researcher in the Immunology Service of the Hospital de la Princesa, where he led a research group on the study of the molecular mechanisms that intervene and regulate the processes of adhesion, polarization, migration and leukocyte activation. His research area has extended in recent years to lymphocyte interactions with the endothelium, lymphocyte activation, and chemokine-directed migration, as well as the role of adhesion and activation receptors, and dendritic cells in the initiation of an immune response, immunological synapse and regulation of the inflammatory response.

He has been Manager of the National Biomedicine Plan (2001-1005), President of the Commission for Immunology and Infectious Diseases of the FIS (1998-2000) and Member of the ERC evaluation panel (2007-2010). After an agreement with the Autonomous University and the Princess University Hospital, of which he is Professor and Head of the Immunology Section, in January 2007 he joined the CNIC.