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Marc A. Marti-renom

Marc A. Marti-renom PhD

Research and Clinical Research, Genetics
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Marc Martí-Renom obtained a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the UAB where he worked on protein folding under the supervision of Professors B. Oliva, F.X. Avilés and M. Karplus. After that, he went to the US for a postdoctoral training on protein structure modeling at the Sali Lab (Rockefeller University) as the recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship. Later on, he was appointed Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Between 2006 and 2011, he was head of the Structural Genomics Group at the CIPF in Valencia (Spain). Currently, he is an ICREA research professor and he leads the Genome Biology Group at the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG) and the Structural Genomics Group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), both in Barcelona. His group is broadly interested on how RNA, proteins and genomes organize and regulate cell fate. He is an Associate Editor of the PLoS Computational Biology journal and has published over 70 articles in international peer-reviewed journal.

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