JOSE MANUEL
TORRES IBAÑEZ

I developed my professional career working for non-profit organizations (research institutes, hospitals and universities), in which I learnt how to decipher the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control a wide variety of cellular processes- My research has focused on, cell growth and transformation during my PhD, stem cell self-renewal and differentiation during my postdoctoral training, and patient-derived induced-pluripotent stem cell physiology during my independent lab head stage. Working in non-profits has fulfilled my motivations as a basic researcher providing meaningful work in being able to experimentally approach cellular physiology and pathology, such as cancer and neurological diseases. I have an innate ethical, collaborative and forthcoming attitude with a strong determination to undertake new professional challenges by successfully applying basic knowledge to developing therapies that will improve human welfare. My years of experience as a basic researcher, ranging from PhD student to Team Leader, have have given me the necessary knowledge and skills to design experiments in close collaboration with other members of the team; manage and motivate students and untrained personnel by encouraging them to organize, keep their records updated and learn how to discuss data by being abreast of relevant literature; analyze results, draw robust conclusions and design contingency plans to address previously unforeseen events and therefore manage the risks by solving the unexpected problems; communicate our laboratory findings both in reputable scientific journals, such as Nature Cell Biology or Cell Stem Cell as research papers, and international institutions, such as Cold Spring Harbor, Spanish Center for Oncology Research (CNIO) or Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) as selected or invited talks.