Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Medina

Miguel Ángel Medina has been a Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Malaga since 19 November 2009. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 1985 and doctorate in 1989 in Biology and graduated in Art History (2010) from the University of Málaga. He was a Postdoctoral DAAD Fellow at Max-Planck Institut für Ernhärungsphysiologie (Dortmund, 1989), Postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellow at Universität Heidelberg (1992), and Max-Planck Institut für biophysikalisches Chemie (Göttingen, 2001), and carried out a Predoctoral Fellowship at the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science at McGill University (Montreal, 1987). His main research topics are angiogenesis; metabolism and transport of nitrogen metabolites in cancer; plasma membrane redox systems; rare diseases; systems and computational biology applied to physiopathologic processes. His scientific production includes the following: more than 275 publications, 23 invited lectures, 10 patents, and participation in 42 research projects.