Joan Comella

MSc in the Economics of Science and Innovation

Joan Comella is currently the director of the Institut de Recerca of Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron and professor of cellular biology at the Universitat de Lleida. He has been director of the research laboratory at the University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova de Lleida. He is former director of the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) of the Ministry of Education and Science and former general director of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology.

Cellular biology, medicine

- "Met signals hepatocyte survival by preventing Fas-triggered FLIP degradation in a PI3K dependent manner", Hepatology forthcoming. (with A. Moumen)
- "Switch from caspase-dependent to -independent death during heart development: Essential role of EndoG in ischemia-induced DNA processing of differentiated cardiomyocytes", Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, 22943-22952, 2006. (with N. Bahi et al.)
- "Proteasome inhibitors induce death but activate NF-kB on endometrial carcinoma cell lines and primary culture explants", Journal of Biological Chemistry 281, 22118-22130, 2006. (with X. Dolcet et al.)