Luis Álvarez-vallina, Md, Phd.

Biography

Co-Founder of LeadArtis is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering, Immunotherapy and Cell Engineering Laboratory, Aarhus University (Denmark). Luis attended Medical School at Oviedo University (Asturias, Spain). He completed a residency in Immunology at the Clínica Puerta de Hierro (Madrid) and earned a PhD in immunology from Autonoma University of Madrid working on T cell development in the human thymus. He spent four years at the Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering (Cambridge, UK). His work contributed to the first generation of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) bearing costimulatory domains. In 1998 established his own research group at the Clínica Puerta de Hierro (Madrid) focus in the generation of multivalent and multispecific antibodies. 

Research Interest

His Research includes the generation of innovative display platforms to select human recombinant antibodies in vivo in tumor-bearing mice (in vivo phage antibody display) and in vitro on complex antigens mixtures expressed on tumor cell surfaces (T lymphocyte display).