José Miguel Ferreras Rodríguez

José Miguel Ferreras (Prof., PhD) is a Full Professor (since 2016) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Physiology,

University of Valladolid, Spain. His research activity is based on four main fields, concerning i) the study of protein synthesis inhibition, ii) the research on ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) from plants, iii) the design and the in vitro and in vivo experimentation of immunotoxins and other conjugates in order to obtain molecules targeted specifically against cells responsible for a pathological state, and iv) the study of ribotoxins from fungi.

Prof. Ferreras has co-authored more than one hundred scientific papers.