Lluís Ribas de Pouplana

MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation

Prof. Ribas is ICREA Research Professor in the Gene Translation Laboratory at IRB Barcelona (Institute for Research in Biomedicine). He has held positions at the Scripps Research Institute and MIT. He was also the coordinator of MEPHITIS, an EU-funded research consortium and the editor of the book "The genetic code and the origin of life" (2005) Plenum Press, New York, USA.

Prof. Ribas holds two patents, "A screening method for identifying new aminoacyl-tRNA syntehtase inhibitors" (2007) and "A screening method fro identifying new drugs" (2007).

proteome quality control in cell biology and disease, structure-function studies of protein-RNA interactions, biomedicine and biotechnology

- Novoa E.M., Castro de Moura M., Orozco M., and Ribas de Pouplana, L. (2009) “A genomics method to identify pathogenicity-related proteins. Application to aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-like proteins.” FEBS Lett. 2009 Nov 12.

- Español Y., Thut D., Schneider A., and Ribas de Pouplana, L. (2009) “A mechanism for functional segregation of mitochondrial and cytosolic genetic codes.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106(46):19420-5.

- Geslain, R., Bori-Sanz, T., Cubells, L., Medina, R., Rossell, D., Martí, E., and Ribas de Pouplana, L. (2009) "The endoplasmatic reticulum controls proteome quality and gradually responds to mutational pressure.” Nucleic Acids Research 2009 Dec 8.