Francisco J. Enguita was born in Zaragoza, Spain. He got his degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Granada, Spain in 1991, where he also completed a degree in microbial biotechnology in 1992. After that, he moved to the University of Salamanca, Spain, where he got his Ph.D. in microbial genetics in 1998. After this training period, he moved to the Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology from the New University of Lisbon in Portugal, where he got a long-term EMBO fellowship to develop a structural biology project based on the use of X-ray crystallography. He became a group leader in the same institution in 2004, being involved in structural studies of adhesion proteins from pathogenic bacteria. In 2006, he moved as a senior researcher to the Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa. He is currently associate professor at the Faculdade de Medicina, Uiversidade de Lisboa. His current research interests are wide but are mainly related to the field of non-coding RNAs, specifically in those involved in human disease.