Prof. Vivek Malhotra
ICREA Research Professor and Chair at Centre de Regulacio Genomica (CRG), Barcelona
Prof. Malhotra is one of world’s leaders on protein secretion and cellular compartmentation. His work is focused on how cellular compartments are made and communicate with each other, and how cells duplicate their compartments during cell division.
He earned his Ph.D. from Oxford and was a Post-doc at Stanford University. He was a professor at University of California San Diego for 18 years. He joined the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, as a coordinator of the Cell and Developmental Biology Programme and ICREA Research Professor. His prior appointments include - Assistant Professor in the Biology Department, UC San Diego, 1995; Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology Department, UCSD, 2007.
He went on to receive numerous awards and honors and they include - Pirie-Reid Scholar, Oxford University, 1985; Damon-Runyon Walter-Winchell Post-doctoral Fellow, 1987; American Cancer Society Senior Post-doctoral Fellow, 1990; Basil O'Connor Scholars Award, 1995; Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, 2000; Senior investigator, Sandler’s foundation for Asthma, 2007; Elected Fellow, AAAS, 2005; Elected Member, EMBO, 2019; ERC advanced grant, 2016; and the ASBMB Merck Award, 2013.