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Director of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute

Joaquín Arribas is the Research Director of the Hospital del Mar and the Director of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, as well as an ICREA Research Professor at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), to which he is still linked and where his research group has ongoing projects.

Dr. Arribas completed his studies in Biochemistry at the Autonomous University of Madrid (1987) where he later worked on the regulation of proteasome catalytic activities and received his PhD in Biology (1991). Sponsored by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science, he joined the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York (USA) as a postdoctoral fellow (1992-96) working on the proteolytic processing of transmembrane growth factors. In 1997, he joined the Department of Oncological Research at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, since which time he has directed the Growth Factors research group.

In 2010, he was appointed director of the preclinical research programme at the VHIO, and in 2017 he became the scientific director of CIBERONC. His research has been recognized by the EMBO Young Investigator Programme Award, and the Beckman Coultek Award for the best Spanish researcher in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.