José Luis Fernández-lun
coordinator
General Science
ENTRECHEM
Spain
Biography
José Luis Fernández-Luna is currently coordinator of the Molecular Genetics Unit at the Valdecilla University Hospital and Head of the Cell Signaling and Therapeutic Targets Laboratory al the IFIMAV Institute (Santander, Spain). He obtained his Ph.D. at the Complutense University of Madrid and was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (MO, USA). In 1990 he moved to Santander where he established a group focused on the mechanisms that regulate apoptosis of cancer cells, making numerous scientific contributions to myeloproliferative diseases and solid tumors. Now he is leading a multidisciplinary group of molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, oncologists and surgeons involved in the study of cancer stem cells. They are defining the molecular components that control the differentiation and migration of cancer stem cells, mainly isolated from glioblastoma and colon cancer specimens, and screening novel compounds able to attack this population of cells with tumorigenic capacity.
Research Interest
General Science
