Dr. Jaume Reventós

Biography

Chairman and Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Research Unit in Biomedicine and Translational Oncology Vall d’Hebron Research Institute and Hospital Barcelona. Jaume Reventós holds an MD degree (Autonomous University of Barcelona, School of Medicine, 1977), and was trained as medical resident in Clinical Chemistry (Hosp. Vall d’Hebrón, 1978-82). Graduate student . (INSERM, U-162, Lyon, France, 1982-84), and Ph.D. in Cell Biology (1984). Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rockefeller University (The Population Council), New York, USA (1985-88) ; and Assistant Professor at the Brookdale Center for Molecular Biology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York (1988-90). Since october 1990, he is Chairman of the Biomedical Research Unit (Translational Oncology Laboratory) at the Vall d’Hebrón Research Institute and Hospital, where he leads a competitive translational research program in the molecular bases of hormone-dependent cancers, in particular, prostate, ovarian and endometrial cancers. From 2003 to 2009, he was President of the Catalan Society of Biology at the Catalan National Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor of Gynecology (since 2005) and of Cell Biology since 2009 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, School of Medicine. In 2007 he graduated at the Program of Management Development (PMD) at the IESE School of Business, University of Navarra, Spain. In the recent years, the research of the group is focused in the characterization of genomic and proteomic differential profiles in cancer tissues and biological fluids in order to identify molecular markers and targets in the above mentioned tumors. To achieve these goals, the group is working in close collaboration with biotechnology companies.

Research Interest

Molecular biology Cancer tissues