Lisardo Boscá is a senior research professor at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the director of the Institute of Biomedical Research Sols-Morreale, co-shared by CSIC and UAM. He is the author of more than 250 original articles of research published in international journals in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, and immunology. He conducted his postdoctoral training at KU Leuven, where he studied the interaction between metabolism and cell proliferation. Later he continued his studies in Oxford, Brussels, London, and Ottawa, studying the role of protein kinase C in the energy metabolism of tumor cells. Since 1992, he has focused on the study of the pathophysiology of inflammatory processes, investigating the contribution of inflammation to the beginning of different pathologies, including cancer and cardiovascular diseases.