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Juan Carlos Laguna Egea
Professor
University of Barcelona
Spain
Biography
Dr. Juan Carlos obtained his Degree in Pharmacy in 1981 at the University of Barcelona (UB), with a Master’s with Honourable Mention in 1983. In 1986, he was awarded a PhD in Pharmacy, also from the UB, with my doctoral work winning the “1985-1986 Extraordinary Award for a Doctorate” from the School of Pharmacy. In 1987, he became Lecturer in Pharmacology at the UB, and Full Professor (Chair in Pharmacology) in 2003. In the Spanish Public University system, both positions are obtained in direct competition with other applicants after public evaluation by a tribunal composed of 5 members elected from among University academics. He was a lecture in Pharmacology at the School of Pharmacy UB, mainly focusing in the fields of Molecular Pharmacology, Biochemical Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Pharmacology. He is the coordinator of the course “Cardiovascular Pathologies and Atherosclerosis” at the Master’s in Biomedicine UB. Recently, he was appointed Director of the official Master’s “Scientific Departments of the Pharmaceutical Industry” UB/EFAME Foundation. He is also an active member of the GIDOF “Group of Innovative Teaching in Pharmacology” UB, set up in 2002. Since 2004, he has participated as coordinator and professor in several courses UB on the subject of dyslipidaemia and obesity, addressed to the general public, as well as Pharmacology Training Courses organized by the Official Pharmaceutical Organizations from Catalonia.
Research Interest
Experimental Pharmacology (atherosclerosis and related metabolic diseases), nuclear receptors, hypolipidemic drugs, experimental models of metabolic diseases