José Antonio Encinar Hidalgo

José Antonio Encinar is associate professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Miguel Hernández de Elche University. He obtained his doctorate (Biochemistry-Neuroscience) in 1998 (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante) and enjoyed two postdoctoral stays in Paris (Institut de Biologie Phisico-Chimique. Prof. Philippe Devaux) and Heidelberg (European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Prof. Luis Serrano). He established his current research activity with a main interest in the computational study dedicated to the search for compounds that modulate the activity of proteins of biomedical interest (cancer, obesity, diabetes). He is author or co-author of 76 research publications (http://shaker.umh.es/publications/).