!!Alfonso Martinez-Arias - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education__
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*June 1983 PhD from the Dpt. of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)\\
*July 1977 “Licenciado en Ciencias Biologicas”. Universidad Complutense. Madrid (Spain)
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__Positions__
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*Since February 2021, ICREA Research Professor, Systems Bioengineering program Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) \\
*October 2003 - January 2021, Professor of Developmental Mechanics. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge\\
*January 2010 - March 2011, Director of the Center for the Physics of Medicine of the University of Cambridge\\
*October 2002 - October 2003, Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK) under a Wellcome Trust University Award Scheme\\
*1987 - 2002 Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences in the Department of  Zoology and, from July 2000 in the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)\\
*August 1986 - August 1987, Staff of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)\\
*1983 - 1986, postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr.P. Lawrence, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK).\\
*1979 - 1983, PhD work on the use of ß-galactosidase fusions to study gene expression in yeast, under the supervision of Dr. M. Casadaban. University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)\\
*1976 - 1979, research studentship towards a “tesina” in the Dpt. Biochemistry under the supervision of A. Ribera, Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain)
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__Main awards__
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*2012 Waddington Medal of the British Society of Developmental Biology\\
*2007 Elected member of EMBO\\
*2003 Personal Chair (Professorship), University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)\\
*2019 Advanced European Research Council Grant Award on “The mammaliam body plan blueprint, an in vitro approach”\\
*2010 Human Science Frontier Grant (PI) on “Information processing by signal transduction and gene regulatory networks in mammalian development”\\
*2009 Advanced European Research Council Grant Award on “Molecular origins and function of dynamic heterogeneities in mouse ES cells and pre-implantation embryos”\\
*1987-2002 Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, held at the University of Cambridge\\
*1983-1986, Long term EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge (UK)\\
*1978-1979 Fullbright Scholarship to attend the University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
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__Currently in two advisory boards__
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*2019 Advisory Board of The Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht (the Netherlands)\\
*2019 Advisory Board of Centro Andaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo, Sevilla (Spain)
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Two patents on and over 180 peer reviewed publications.\\
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Two text books: Molecular Principles of animal development (OUP 2002) and Principles of Development (7t edition OUP, 2025) as well as a popular Science book; The Master Builder (Basic Books, 2023).\\
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Multiple keynote lectures.\\
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Significant contributions to cell and developmental biology with a special mention on the discovery of ‘gastruloids” a stem cell based model of early mammalian development that has opened up important avenues to study the early stages of human development.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit amartinez-arias}][{ALLOW upload amartinez-arias}][{ALLOW comment All}]