Lluís Montoliu
Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER-ISCIII) in Madrid (Spain).

CSIC scientific researcher at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) and the Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER-ISCIII) in Madrid (Spain). His team is pioneering the use of CRISPR in Spain to investigate rare human diseases such as albinism using animal models. In 2006, he founded the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT), which he chaired until 2014. He currently directs the European Society for Pigment Cell Research (ESPCR) and is a member of the CSIC ethics committee and the European Research Council (ERC) ethics panel.