National Centre for Biotechnolgy (CNB-CSIC). Spain
CSIC scientific researcher in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) and the CIBER of Rare Diseases (CIBERER-ISCIII), Madrid (Spain). His team was pioneering in Spain in its use of CRISPR tools to research rare human diseases such as albinism using animal models. In 2006, he founded the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT), which he presided over until 2014. He is currently the President of the European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR) and a member of the CSIC ethics committee and the ethics board of the European Research Council (ERC).