Home > Research Team > Joaquín Arribas
Current positions
- Head of the Growth Factors Laboratory
- Director of VHIO´s Preclinical Research Program
- ICREA Research Professor, 2007
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Territorial Network for Cooperative Cancer Research (RTICC)
- Chairman of the Committee for the Evaluation of Research Projects on Cancer (Cancer Research Fund) of the Carlos III Health Institute
- Member of the Spanish and American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Email: jarribas(ELIMINAR)@vhio.net
Academic Qualifications
- Degree in Biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid, 1987
- Doctorate in Biology, 1991
Areas of Research
- Study of the role of certain signal transduction pathways in the development of cancer.
- Role of the EGF receptor.
Prizes and Scholarships
- EMBO Young Investigator Programme (YIP)
- Beckman-Coulter award of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Most relevant scientific publications
- Pedersen K, Angelini PD, Laos S, Bach-Faig A, Cunningham MP, Ferrer-Ramón C, Luque-García A, García-Castillo J, Parra-Palau JL, Scaltriti M, Ramón y Cajal S, Baselga J, Arribas J. A naturally occurring HER2 carboxy-terminal fragment promotes mammary tumor growth and metastasis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 2009 Jun; 29(12): 3319-31
- Anido J, Scaltriti M, Bech Serra JJ, Santiago Josefat B, Todo FR, Baselga J, Arribas J. Biosynthesis of tumorigenic HER2 C-terminal fragments by alternative initiation of translation. EMBO J. 2006 Jul; 25(13): 3234-44
- Borrell-Pages M, Rojo F, Albanell J, Baselga J, Arribas J. TACE is required for the activation of the EGFR by TGF-alpha in tumors. EMBO J. 2003 Mar; 22(5): 1114-24
