Jose Maria Carazo Garcia PhD

Jose-Maria Carazo finished his Master's in Physics. He then moved to the IBM Madrid Scientific Center, where he was confronted with the image processing challenges behind the emerging techniques, at the time, of three-dimensional electron microscopy (3D-EM) and the different atomic scanning techniques in whose development IBM was engaged. He defended his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University Autonoma of Madrid (UAM) in 1984.

Jose-Maria Carazo left for Albany, New York, in 1986, to join the Wadsworth Center of the NYS Department of Health, to work under the direction of Dr. Joachim Frank. My coming back to Madrid happened in 1989, setting up the BioComputing Unit of the newly established National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), nowadays the largest Center of the Spanish High Research Council (CSIC), located on the campus of the UAM.

Jose-Maria Carazo Currently keeps busy in Madrid, fully engaged in my activities at the CNB and Instruct, after a period in which I was deeply involved in technology transfer, spinning off, maturing, and finally selling to Perkin Elmer (PKI) our bioinformatics company Integromics.