Ricardo Pujol Borrell

MD Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona 1979
PhD Immunology University College London 1990
Consultant and Professor of Immunology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol 1992 and 1994 respectively.
Scientific Director of the Health Sciences Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (1999-200) and of the Blood and Tissue Bank (2007-2010)
Consultant Clinical Immunologist at Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron 2010-
Research Advisor to the Director of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS), 2008-
Contributions in the field of autoimmunity: to the hypothesis of organ specific autoimmune disease as a target tissue driven process (1983); in the role of central tolerance in preventing autoimmunity (1988); first transcriptomic profiling of the autoimmune thyroid and diabetic pancreas (2011), identification of the mechanism by which TSHR gene confers susceptibility to Graves' disease (2011) and a new proposal on the origin of TSHR stimulating antibodies generation (2016).