Department: Genética, Fisiología y Microbiología

Faculty: Ciencias Biológicas

Area: Physiology

Email: fraran01@ucm.es

Doctor by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with the thesis Caracterización de nuevos miembros de la familia MAL de proteínas 2008. Supervised by Dr. M.A. Alonso.

National and international research with more than 20 years of experience. 6 years of teaching at the university and 2 six-year research periods (2 sexenios) at ANECA CNEAI (National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity). Graduate in Biochemistry from the University of Granada (1999) and PhD in Molecular Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2008). Professor specialized in Inmunology, human physiology, pathophysiology, biochemistry and genetics subjects at the European University of Madrid (2018-2021) as an associate professor at the CEU San Pablo University (2021 - 2023) and currently as a full profesor at Complutense University of Madrid in Biology Faculty at the genetic, phisiology and microbiology department. Long research career in Spain, beginning at the Severo Ochoa Molecular Biology Center (CSIC-UAM) and CIEMAT (2001-2011). Predoctoral research stay at University College London (UCL) as an EMBO short term grant recipient (2007). Postdoctoral researcher at New York University (NYU) and Yale University in the United States investigating the regulatory molecular mechanisms that microRNAs have in the pathophysiology of cardiometabolic diseases (2012-2017). Since 2018, he has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Immunometabolism laboratory directed by Dr. Maria Mittelbrunn at the CBMSO, studying the role of the immune system in the onset of age-associated diseases, such as Diabetes, chronic inflammation (Science, 2020) . Throughout his scientific career he has studied the cellular and molecular processes involved in inflammation. As a result of his participation in both national and international basic biomedical research projects, as well as translational ones, he is the author of more than 30 publications in scientific journals (1600 citations, H index: 23), some of them from recognized prestige as Nature and Science. I am currently starting my own line of research on the effect of inflammation and aging on the communication between the renal and skeletal systems, mainly through mediators of the immune system.