Biographical sketch

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Marçal Vilar received a degree from the University of Valencia (UV), Spain, in Chemistry in 1995. He earned a Ph.D. degree in the same University in 2002. His graduate studies were with the late Dr. E. Pérez-Payá "Quique" at UV (Very sadly Quique passed away last May 27th, 2013) and Dr. J.F. Marcos at IATA-CSIC in Peptide Biochemistry. From 2001-2003 Dr. Vilar was a Post-Doctoral fellow in Prof. Dr. Carlos Ibañez Molecular Neurobiology lab at the Institute Karolinska, in Stockholm, Sweden. There he devoted to the study of p75 neurotrophic factor receptor signaling. In 2003, Dr. Vilar moved to California, where he was a Research Associate at the Structural Biology laboratory of Dr. Roland Riek (now at the ETH Zurich) at The Salk Institute in La Jolla, doing research on p75ICD structure/function studies and on synuclein amyloid fibrils by NMR. In 2006 Dr. Vilar returned to Spain with a Juan de la Cierva fellowship from the Spanish Government to the Membrane Protein lab of Dr. Ismael Mingarro in the UV. In 2008, he moved for a Staff Scientist position at the Spanish Cancer Center (CNIO) in Madrid in the laboratory of Dr. Angel Nebreda (now at IRB Barcelona), studying protein structure and cell cycle regulation.  He got a Ramón y Cajal award position in 2009. In November 2009 he got a permanent position at the Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) in the Campus of Majadahonda (Madrid, Spain). In 2016 he changed Research Institution moving to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Biomedicine in Valencia (IBV-CSIC), a position that currently occupies, as a group leader in the Unit of Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration.

 

Education

 

1990-1995 Undergraduate studies at the University of Valencia. Chemistry.

1995-1997 Assistant Professor University of Valencia.

1997-2002 PhD degree at the University of Valencia. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Labs of Enrique Pérez-Payá and José F. Marcos.

2000 EMBO Short Term fellowship scientist visitor. The University of Stockholm. Prof. Gunnar von Heijne.

2001-2003 PostDoctoral Research. Karolinska Institutet. Stockholm. Prof. Carlos Ibañez.

2003-2006 Research Associate The Salk Institute. La Jolla. Prof. Dr. Roland Riek

2006-2008 Juan de la Cierva Researcher. The University of Valencia. Lab of Prof. Dr. Isamel Mingarro

2008-2009 Staff Scientist. Spanish Cancer Center, CNIO. Madrid. Prof. Dr. Angel Nebreda

2009-2016 P.I. Neurodegeneration laboratory. Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII).

2016- present P.I. Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration. Spanish Research Council (CSIC).