Corchero José Luis

Dr. José L. Corchero graduated in Biology in 1990. After that, he obtained a Master Degree (1993) in Biotechnology and a PhD. (1997) in Biological Sciences. His doctoral thesis dealt with several aspects regarding production of recombinant proteins in E. coli, protein structure, folding and aggregation, and bacterial physiology. Then, he moved to the “”Center for Disease Control and Prevention” (Atlanta, USA) with a post-doctoral fellowship, where he worked for 2 years on detection and diagnostic of herpesviruses. In 2000, Dr. Corchero joined the R+D section of Biokit SA., where he developed diagnostic kits based on magnetic microparticles. Since 2007, Dr. Corchero is a senior scientist of CIBER-BBN (Networking on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine) within the research group of Prof. Antonio Villaverde (IBB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This group is mainly interested in a) the development of non-viral, protein-only vectors for gene therapy, b) the study of protein aggregation in bacterial and mammalian cells, c) production of recombinant proteins for enzyme replacement therapy and d) applications of bacterial inclusion bodies in tissue engineering (“nanoscaffolds”) and as therapeutic agents (“nanopills”). Dr. Corchero current research mainly deals with production of therapeutic proteins for rare diseases and the development of new vehicles for the targeted delivery of such proteins.