Luis Blanco

Luis Blanco is Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council, CSIC. His main research topics are Enzymology of DNA replication and repair, focused on DNA polymerases. Dr. Blanco discovered and characterized: ø29DNA polymerase in 1984; ASFV DNA pol, the smallest kown DNA polymerase (20 kDa), in 1997; DNA polymerases lambda and mu, involved in NHEJ repair of DSBs, in 2000; PrimPol, an eukaryotic primase/polymerase involved in translesion synthesis and replication restart, in 2012.