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Francisco J. Tejedor Rescalvo

Francisco J Tejedor studied Chemistry at the University of Granada (Spain) and made a Master Thesis on novel photosynthetic methods (1979). He made his PhD working on the regulation of protein synthesis and inhibitory mechanisms of antibiotics at the Centro de Biologia Molecular-Severo Ochoa, CSIC-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (1979-83), where he also hold a Teaching Assistant position ((1980-85). He was NATO postdoc fellow at the Dept. of Pharmacology University of Washington, Seatle, USA (1985-88) where he worked on structure function relationship of voltage gated ion channels. As an EMBO postdoc fellow, he moved to the Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany, (1988-89) where investigated molecular mechanisms of ion channels regulation. In 1990, he got a Staff Scientist CSIC position at the Instituto Cajal- CSIC (Madrid) where he started his own research group and, in collaborations with other labs, cloned and characterized by first time the Mnb/Dyrk1A gene. In 1996, he moved to Alicante where he organized the Department of Developmental Neurobiology of the Instituto de Neurociencias as a joint center of the C.S.I.C. and the Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Along these years his Molecular Neurogenetics Group has been working on the genetic, cellular and molecular basis of neural proliferation and neurogenesis during brain development and associated neurodevelopmental pathologies. His work has extensively contributed to the understanding of the neurodevelopmental functions of the Down syndrome candidate gene DYRK1A.

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