Javier Calvo Benito

I’m Dr. Javier Calvo, borned in 1964 in Spain. I’m M.D. and Ph.D., and specialist in Immunology. During my residency training at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, I participated in several research projects that led to the publication of more than 20 original articles published in international journals and obtaining my doctoral thesis that deserved Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the University of Barcelona. These projects are mainly focused on the study of membrane CD5 molecule and include its biochemical, genetic and functional characterization. In all the projects I have been involved conducting essential techniques of cell and molecular biology. I’m currently working at the Blood and Tissue Bank of the Balearic Islands that was established in 1999. Since the beginning of the activity of