Biographies and pictures




Eric Voltà Durán graduated in Biotechnology in 2018 and developed his Master
Thesis in Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the
Nanobiotechnology group led by Prof. Villaverde at the Autonomous University
of Barcelona. He is currently starting a PhD in Biotechnology in the same group,
working on the design and production of proteins with biomedical interest. He is
currently focused on the rational engineering of CXCR4-targeted protein
nanoparticles, with great potential in cancer therapy.
Esther Vázquez is Senior Researcher at the Institut de Biotecnologia i de
Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and Associate
Professor at the Department de Genètica i de Microbiologia, of the same
university. She is also member of the CIBER of Bioengineering, Biomaterials
and Nanomedicine. Being formed at the State University of New York. USA,
and after working in different Universities on molecular medicine, she is now
interested on protein drug design, recombinant protein production,
nanobiotechnology and protein nanoparticles for targeted therapies.
Antonio Villaverde graduated in Biological Sciences in 1982 and got his PhD in
1985. He has been scientifically formed in Barcelona, Madrid, London,
Lausanne and Braunschweig. Since 1987, he is Professor of Microbiology at
the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, were he got a Full Professorship
in 2002. He leads the Nanobiotechnology group in this university and in the
CIBER-BBN, focusing to the design of protein-based materials for biomedical
applications. He founded the journal Microbial Cell Factories in 2002, being its
Editor-in-Chief for 15 years.