Team

Núria Amigó Grau

President and CEO (Scientific management and Co-founder)

(Reus, 1984) Graduated in Physics from the University of Barcelona (2009), where she also completed a master’s degree in Biophysics (2010) and has a PhD in Biomedial engineering at the URV. She has carried out research at the Science Park of Barcelona and the Platform of X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography, and she has worked as a research collaborator in Biophysics and Neural Networks at the University of Barcelona (2009-2010) during which time she visited as a researcher the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems. She has recently finished a doctoral stage as a research trainee at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA).

Roger Mallol Parera

Board Member (Co-founder)

(Gratallops, 1981) has a PhD in Bioengineering from the URV (2014), graduated in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2008), completed his master’s degree in Electronics at the URV (2009) and a postgraduate qualification at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2012). Roger Mallol is a member of the founding partners and the Management Board of Biosfer Teslab, where he has worked as CEO (2014-2015). Currently he is a Postdoctoral researcher in the University of Lausana. In addition, he has worked as a researcher at the Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research (2012-2013), had a doctoral visit at the University of Manchester (2011) and worked at the multinational Lionbridge during his Erasmus stay in Finland (2007-2008).

Xavier Correig Blanchar

Scientific advisor and co-founder

(Reus, 1960) has a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1988) and is currently a professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in the Department of Electronic Engineering. Between 1999 and 2001 he directed theCIDEM’s Centre for Innovation in Electronic Engineering, and between 2002 and 2006 he was the URV’s vice-rector for Innovation and Transfer. In 2007 he created the Metabolomics Platform, a scientific infrastructure belonging to the Networking Biomedical Research Centre in Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases, currently part of the URV’s Centre for Omic Sciences. He has been on postdoctoral visits to the Automotive Development Center (Lear Corp., 1999) and the London Center for Nanotechnologies (London, 2007). His research interest focuses on creating nano- and biotechnologies that can be used in biomedicine.

Lluís Masana Marín

Clinical advisor and co-founder

After graduating in Medicine (1976) and obtaining his PhD in Medicine (1980) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he had a postdoctoral visit at the Department of Chemical Pathology of Saint Thomas’s Hospital, London (1983-1984) where he focused on disorders of the lipid metabolism. He has been head of medicine at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili since 1991. Between 1992 and 2006 he was head of the Service of Internal Medicine of the Sant Joan University Hospital in Reus. He has been the director of the Unit of Lipids since 1985 and of the Unit of Vascular Medicine and Metabolism since 2006. Between 2000 and 2004 he was president of the Spanish Arteriosclerosis Society, between 1990 and 1994 a member of the executive committee of the European Lipoprotein Club, and between 2009 and 2012 a member of the executive committee of the European Arteriosclerosis Society.

Daniel Rodriguez Romeu

Software Developer and IT Technician

(Tarragona, 1991) graduated in Computer Engineering by the University Rovira and Virgili, now in the last year of a Master in Intelligent Systems and Computer Securtiy by the same university. Software Developer in different programming languages, interpreted or compiled.

Enrique Ozcariz García

Operations Chief Officer

(Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1995) graduated in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Biotechnology by Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2018). He has done an internship stay in Achucarro Basque Center of Neuroscience (2015).

Sara Samino Gené

Project Manager

(Tarragona, 1987), has a Phd in Biochemistry by Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2013), Graduated in Biotechnology (2009), Master in Nutrition and metabolism (2010) and Master in Integrated Management: quality, environment and occupational health and safety (2018) by the same University. She also did a Postgraduate in Advanced techniques in Applied Statistics (2010) by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. She had a doctoral stage in ETH in Zurich. She worked as a researcher in CIBERDEM (2013-2015) for Universitat Rovira i Virgili and as a Research Assistant in Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2016-2017).

Neus Martínez Micaelo

Project Manager

(Reus 1983) has a PhD by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2014), Meng in Food Science Engineering (2009) by the Universitat de Lleida, Graduated in Biotechnology (2009) and MSc in Nutrition and Metabolism (2010) by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (2018) by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat de Barcelona. She visited as student the Iowa State University and during the PhD a doctoral visit at the Imperial College London. She worked as researcher in the Cardiovascular Research Group in the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV), and as CIBERDEM researcher in the Lipids and atherosclerosis research unit (URLA). She is also an Associate Lecturer in the Biochemistry and Biotechnology department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Lydia Cabau

Project Manager

(Reus, 1982) has a PhD in Chemistry from the Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ) and from the Rovira i Virgili University (2014). Degree in Chemistry (2007). Master in Occupational Risk Prevention (2009) and Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2012) from Rovira i Virgili University. After completing her dissertation and a two-year postdoctoral stay at the same ICIQ, she worked for two years as a researcher at the Commissioner for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy (CEA) in Grenoble (2018).

Carla Merino Ruiz

Lab Manager

(Ecuador, 1993) graduated in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2015), Master’s Degree in Clinical Analysis Laboratory at the Pompeu Fabra University (2016) and a PhD in metabolomics applied to environmental health at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2021). During her doctoral thesis, she did a national stay in the Environmental Toxicology Group of the IDAEA-CSIC (Barcelona, 2019) and an international stay in the Environmental Cheminformatics Group of the LCSB-UoL (Luxembourg, 2019). She worked as a research assistant at the Metabolomics Interdisciplinary Laboratory (MIL@b) (2016-2017 and 2021).