Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

Francisco Sánchez-Madrid
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain
Readying immune cells prior to disease-inducing encounters
Project leader

Dr. Sánchez Madrid is group leader at the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC). He is also Professor of Immunology at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (AUM) and Chief of the Immunology Service at La Princesa University Hospital.

He has been Manager of the National Biomedicine Plan (2001-1005), President of the Commission for Immunology and Infectious Diseases of the FIS (1998-2000) and Member of the evaluation panel of the ERC (2007-2010).

He was recently awarded with the Santiago Ramón y Cajal National Prize in Biology.

https://www.cnic.es/es/francisco-sanchez-madrid

He was initially focused on the study of the molecular mechanisms that intervene and regulate the processes of leukocyte adhesion, polarization, migration and activation.

His area of research has been extended in recent years to the interactions of lymphocytes with the endothelium, lymphocyte activation and migration directed by chemokines, as well as the role of adhesion and activation receptors, and of dendritic cells in the initiation of immune response, the immunological synapse and the regulation of the inflammatory response.

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)
Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3
28029 Madrid
Spain
Tel.: +34 91 453 12 00

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