Salvador Ventura

Biography:

Salvador Ventura is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and co-founder of Eureka Nanobioengineering. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Bruker 'Manuel Rico' Prize, four ICREA Academia awards, the Narcís Monturiol Med al, and the Serra Hunter Knowledge Transference Award. Salvador is a member of the Academia Europaea. As a Group Leader at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) of UAB, where he previously served as Director, he has authored over 320 scientific publications and holds 19 patents. His research focuses on the relationship between protein misfolding and neurodegenerative diseases, with the aim of developing novel therapeutic molecules to fight these debilitating disorders.