Jose Mato PhD

José M Mato is founder and General Director of the Centers bioGUNE (Bilbao) and biomaGUNE (San Sebastián), and Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain. A graduate in Biochemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid, Professor Mato received a PhD degree from Leiden University and was awarded the CJ Kok prize for his thesis. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the National Institutes of Health, and a faculty member at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation in Madrid before been named Research Professor at the CSIC. He has been Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra and Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jeff erson University. From 1992 to 1996 Professor Mato was President of the CSIC and in 2004 was awarded the Spanish National Research Prize in Medicine.