Jordi Surrallés

With a PhD in Genetics and postdoctoral experience in The Netherlands (Leiden University Medical Center) and Finland (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health), he set up his research team at the UAB where he is currently Full Professor of Genetics. He is Director of the Biobank of DNA Repair Syndromes, Head of the Chromosome Fragility Laboratory Service and team leader at the Center for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases, where he participates in the Area of Familial Cancer, Hematology and Dermatology. He has supervised over 25 research grants awarded from public and private institutions world-wide and participated in clinical trials, several patents and contracts with private foundations and biotech-pharma companies. He has given tens of invited lectures in international meetings. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters, supervised 25 PhD and Master degree students. He is reviewer of tens of scientific journals including Science, Nature, or Blood and Referee of national and international funding agencies including European Research Council,Agence Nationale de la Recherche,Cancer Research UK,Commission of the European Union,Duch Cancer Society(The Netherlands), Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Inc.(USA),German-Israeli Fundation for Scientic Research and Development(Germany), INSERM (France),and the French National Cancer Institute(France).He was awarded with the Fanconi Anemia Discovery Award(Denver 2013,USA)and two ICREA-Academia Awards (2008 and 2014).