Dr. Pedro A Reche is a full professor at the Department of Immunology. He joined the University Complutense, Faculty of Medicine, in late 2006 as a Ramon y Cajal Research Scientist. Dr. Reche is a Chemist (1990) with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/Biochemistry (1995) from the University of Granada, Spain, carrying out the PhD work in the Institute of Biomedicine, Lopez Neyra (Granada, Spain)(Supervisors Luis M. Ruiz-Perez and Dolores Gonzalez-Pacanowska ). He received post-doctoral training at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cambridge (England) (1995-1998)(Supervisor: Dr. Richard N. Perham) and the DNAX Research Institute, California, USA (1998-2001)(Supervisor: Dr J.Fernando Bazan). From 2001 to 2006, he worked at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Ma, USA, as research scientist and instructor of medicine of Harvard Medical School (Supervisor: Dr. Ellis L. Reinherz). Dr. Reche's research career is multidisciplinary. He has made relevant contributions in Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics. Current research interests include A) Unraveling features of immune recognition B) Discovery and characterization of bioactive peptides and C) Immunomodulation by epithelial and tumor cells.