Josep M. Argilés, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Cancer
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Professor Josep M. Argilés was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and completed his undergraduate studies in Biology at the University of Barcelona, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree and Special Prize for the best B.Sc. He received his Doctorate in Biochemistry from the same university with Cum Laude, obtaining the Prize for the best doctorate of that year. He then became a Lecturer in Biochemistry and carried out postdoctoral work on acetone metabolism in mammals. He undertook further postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Metabolism and Molecular Biology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He later became a full professor of biochemistry and molecular biology of cancer at the Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, where he led a research group interested in cancer cachexia. His main contribution to the field of cancer research concerns the mechanisms associated with cancer cachexia.