Prof. Francisco Blanco Gutierrez
Prof. Blanco Gutierrez (Biological Research Centre of the Spanish National research Council-CSIC) obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1992. As a predoc at Institute of Structure of Matter-CSIC, he used NMR for the characterization of linear peptides folding into β-hairpins. As a postdoc at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg), he studied the structure and folding of spectrin SH3 domain, and at NIH he used solid-state NMR to study the structure of HIV-Rev protein fibers. He moved back to CSIC (Spain) in 2000 and participated in a structural genomics project determining the structure of a protein with a novel fold. He joined the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in 2002 as a Ramón y Cajal research professor where he studied tumor suppressor ING4 and several meganucleases. In 2007 he moved to CIC bioGUNE as IKERBASQUE research professor to work on the structural biology of cancer using NMR and other methods. In 2020 he relocated his lab to the Biological Research Centre-CSIC in Madrid. He has authored 123 publications with more than 5000 citations, and an h-index of 40. He has supervised 9 Ph.D. Thesis, and is Honorary Professor of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
In 2022 he held the course NMR spectroscopy and its application to structural studies of biomolecules as visiting professor at the Institute of Biophysics.