Luis Blanco Dávila
Advisory Board
Sygnis
Germany
Biography
Luis Blanco Dávila is a Research Professor at Molecular Biology Centre Severo Ochoa from the National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. He is an international expert in the molecular biology of polymerases and their biotechnological and biomedical applications. Dr Blanco, has identified and characterised several DNA polymerases including that of phage phi29 (co-inventor in the patent protecting Phi29 DNA polymerase, while he was working at Pr. Dr. Margarita Sala’s lab), as well as Pol lambda and Pol mu. Prof. Blanco has been the leader of different national and international projects in the field of polymerases and has authored more than 100 articles published in international journals. Dr Blanco is founder of X-Pol Biotech, the company that merged with SYGNIS in 2012. Dr. Blanco is one of the key shareholders of SYGNIS.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology
