Prof. Dr. Jose Salas

José A. Salas graduated from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 1980 with a Ph.D. in Streptomyces cell differentiation. After post-doctoral stays in David Ellar’s laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and Eric Cundliffe’s laboratory in Leicester, UK, he returned to Oviedo as Lecturer in Microbiology. Since 1999 he has been a Full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oviedo. His major scientific interests are the isolation and characterization of biosynthetic pathways for bioactive compounds produced by actinomycetes and the generation of novel derivatives from natural products by combinatorial biosynthesis.