Xavier Fernà ndez-busquets
Group Leader
IBEC – Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets is Head of the Nanomalaria Joint Unit at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia and the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research. He got his PhD in Biochemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has been a visiting scientist at CIBA-GEIGY AG (Basel, Switzerland) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel) and the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, US) from 1993 to 1999, and at the Universitat de Barcelona until 2001, when he obtained a Ramón y Cajal grant to start his research on Nanomedicine.
Research Interest
Nanomalaria
Publications
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Grice, L. F., Gauthier, M. E. A., Roper, K. E., Fernà ndez-Busquets, X., Degnan, S. M., Degnan, B. M., (2017). Origin and evolution of the sponge aggregation factor gene family Molecular Biology and Evolution 34, (5), 1083-1099Â
