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Jacinto López Sagaseta has led the Protein Crystallography and Structural Immunology Unit since its creation in 2019. The Unit specializes in the experimental determination of the molecular structure of proteins and their interactions with other biological components (proteins, peptides, lipids, DNA, etc.).

He has been a researcher at international centers such as the University of Chicago
(2009-2015), Novartis Vaccines (2015-2016) and GSK Vaccines (2016-2017), where he led the experimental resolution of numerous TCR-antigen-MHC complexes and antibody-antigen. In 2010 he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ref. 1046777, National Program for Mobility of Human Resources of the National Plan for R&D&I 2008-2011), in 2015 he was awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship by the European Commission (Grant 659615), and in 2018 with the Ramón y Cajal Program, from the Ministry of Science and Innovation (RYC-2017-21683). Among his recognitions, he holds the I3 accreditation from the Ministry of Universities and the accreditation as a Contracted Professor by Aneca. He is an invited reviewer for scientific journals as well as for the State Research Agency (AEI). The results of his research have been published in specialized journals, with him as lead author in articles published by Nature Communications, Blood, PNAS or EMBO Journal, as well as in immunology textbooks (Immunobiology, 9th Edition, Encyclopedia of Immunobiology, 2016).
 

Eduardo Albéniz holds a medical degree (Medicine and Surgery) from the University of Navarra (1998) and specialized in Digestive System (MIR) at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid (1999-2003). Professionally, he has worked at HU Angers-France (2003), Hospital San Rafael in Madrid (2003-2004), and Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete (2004-2009). Since 2009, he has worked as a Consultant Gastroenterologist in the Endoscopy Unit of the Digestive System Service at the University Hospital of Navarra (HUN). Furthermore, since 2018 he combines his clinical activity with research thanks to several fellowships for Intensification (50% research activity; 50% clinical activity). These fellowships enabled him to complete his PhD in Medicine at the Public University of Navarra in 2021.

Dr. Albéniz has coordinated since 2013 the national Endoscopic Resection group of the Spanish Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SEED), whose main work is to promote national and international collaborative research in this field.
 
Since 2023, he has been a Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the society´s scientific Committee. In addition, he coordinates the research activity of the Digestive System Service, the Resection and treatment unit for digestive motor disorders, and the CSUR functional unit for achalasia of the HUN.

Throughout his career, he has been a tutor for residents and, currently, he is directing 3 doctoral theses. He has participated in 38 research projects, 22 of them as PI and 10 of them awarded with competitive funding (SEED, ESGE, SVNPD, MEDTECH Navarra and ISCIII). He has also collaborated in the development of the European ESGE (European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) guidelines on Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and on training in POEM (Per-Oral Endoscopy Miotomy). As a result of this work, Dr. Albéniz is the author of more than 90 scientific publications in journals with a high impact index.