Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez is Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. He is the holder of an active ERC Consolidator grant and has established a multidisciplinary group working at the cell/material interface (Microenvironments for Medicine – MiMe, www.mimeresearch.com). He did a PhD in Valencia and then was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry in Prague (2003) and the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (2004-2006). He was Associate Professor (2008) and then Full Professor (2010) at the Technical University of Valencia (Centre for Biomaterials) and Visiting Professor in Georgia Tech (2010). In 2012 he was appointed to set-up the materials research division in Abengoa (international company with 20000+ employees). His group has played a pioneering role in the development of polymers that trigger the self-assembly of proteins. This work spans fundamental mechanisms at the cell/material interface as well as translational research in regenerative medicine. He authored >140 articles in major journals. He arrived in Glasgow in 2013 and since then has generated a grant portfolio from the UK (EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, Cancer Research UK, FABW), international sources (FP7) and industry.