Prof. Salvador Moncada

Prof Salvador Moncada  MD, PhD research influence has had major global impact, as shown by his standing in the international citation indexes and his acknowledgement as the most cited UK scientist in biomedicine in the 1990s.  In 2010 he received a Knighthood from Her Majesty the Queen in recognition of his services to Science. He spent two decades leading various ground-breaking research projects at the Wellcome Research Laboratories. In 1996, Prof. Moncada moved to University College, London to establish and direct the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research. At the invitation of the Spanish Government, between 1999 and 2004 he conceived, designed and developed the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid. In recent years, an interest in glycolysis research has had significant implications for the understanding of normal and abnormal cell proliferation, for example, in cancer.