User:Cvgailec/Salvador Macip i Maresma

Salvador Macip i Maresma (Blanes, la Selva, December 18 1970) is a physician, researcher and catalan writer.

Biography
He studied Medicine at University of Barcelona (1988-1994) where he got a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Human Physiology (1998). Between the end 1998 and the beginning of 2008 he worked at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York doing oncologic research about cellular ageing. He has been pursuing his research since 2008 at the Mechanisms of Cancer and Ageing Lab that he directs at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, where he also teaches at the Cell and Molecular Biology Department. In 2020 he joined the Open University of Catalonia as a teacher and researcher. His studies, amongst other things, have contributed to new treatments for leukemia. He has won multiple prizes for his books some of which are science related.