Replaces Joaquín Arenas, who has requested his release for personal reasons
Until his appointment, Antonio L. Andreu held the General Sub-Directorate of Evaluation and Promotion of Research at the Institute.
Doctor of Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he is a specialist in Clinical Biochemistry and his collaboration with the ISCIII began in 2002.
March 1, 2013.- The Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and with the agreement of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, has agreed at its meeting today to appoint Antonio L. Andreu Périz as new director of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII). Andreu replaces Joaquín Arenas, who has requested his relief for personal reasons.
Antonio L. Andreu, was born in Barcelona in 1960. Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1984, received a doctorate from the same University in 2000. He has a broad curriculum as a researcher and evaluator, has received eight awards from research for his activity in the field of clinical genetics -his specialty-, he has directed six doctoral theses and is the author of 147 international scientific publications in the area of neuromuscular diseases.
His professional career is linked to the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, where he completed his residency in Clinical Biochemistry (1986-1988), becoming a specialist physician at the center in 89. At this center, he has been head of the Neuromuscular Disease Genetics Laboratory, coordinator of Neuroscience Research at the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, director of the Molecular Medicine Program, and clinical head of the Biochemistry Department.
His clinical activity has been combined with the management of research in which, among other tasks, he has been a speaker on Life Sciences in the Monitoring Commission of the VI National R & D & I Plan.
In the period 1998-2001 he moved to Columbia University in New York to work in the field of genetics of mitochondrial diseases.
Its collaboration with the ISCIII began in 2002, until its definitive incorporation, at the proposal of Joaquín Arenas, as deputy director general of Evaluation and Promotion of Research in April 2012.
The until now director of the ISCIII, Joaquín Arenas, considers that with this change the continuity of the team is maintained and a stage in the Institute that has lasted more than 15 years is closed for him, the last nine as deputy director general of Evaluation and Promotion of Research, an activity that he combined for 4 years with the general subdirectorate of Research Networks and Centers until his appointment as general director of the Institute in February 2012.
The Government has thanked Arenas for the work carried out in the last year as director of the ISCIII, during which he has maintained a close relationship with the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and with the State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation. He has highlighted his professional category and has underlined his excellent scientific and management work and his dedication.
