José Carlos Rodríguez Cabello

Talk: Combination of functionalities in Elastin like recombinamer-based hydrogels to achieve cell instructive scaffolds

Prof. J. Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello (1963). Carlos got, first, a degree in chemistry (Biochemistry) and, later a second degree in physics (Condensed Matter), both at the University of Valladolid in Spain, where he also obtained his doctoral degree.

He is full professor in the Condensed Matter Physics department of the University of Valladolid and the head of the Bioforge Lab, a research group founded in 1996 and devoted to the development of recombinamers in a pioneering effort on the use of genetic engineering and other biotechnologies for the creation of advanced materials. His interests move from studying basic knowledge on self-organization and the interplay between order and disorder in protein-like systems to applications of those materials in fields such as regenerative medicine, nanomedicine and nanotechnology. Complexity and multi(bio)functionality are the characteristics of the systems developed by his group. Carlos has published about 250 papers in indexed journals and is inventor on 15 patent applications, 5 of them transferred and under exploitation. He is also cofounder of two startups; Technical Proteins Nanobiotechnology SL., of which he is the current CEO, and CellDrive 3D S.L. (as Chief Scientific Adviser)