Speaker

Antonio Zorzano is  Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona, Director of Complex metabolic diseases and mitochondria laboratory at the IRB Barcelona, and member of CIBERDEM. Professor Zorzano received his PhD in Biology at the University of Barcelona, and did postdoctoral studies with Emilio Herrera (Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid), Neil Ruderman (Boston University Medical Center), and Paul Pilch (Boston University Medical School). He has supervised  47 Ph.D. theses, and has coordinated  international consortia funded by different European agencies. He is co-inventor of more than 20 patents, and has published over 370 scientific articles (more than 47,000 citations), with key discoveries published in leading journals. Professor Zorzano’s research focuses on the regulation of metabolism and its interplay with insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and liver diseases.

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