Güell Cargol, Marc
Engineering Sciences
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Phone 933160923
Email Jordi Garcia Ojalvo
Department Departament Medicina i Ciències de la Vida
Keywords
Synthetic biology
Gene editing
CRISPR
Skin microbiome
Sensors
Xenotransplantation
AI-based biodesign
Short biography
Marc Güell is an ICREA Research Professor, working at Pompeu Fabra University. His work includes several synthetic biology breakthroughs (radically recoded genome, PERVs-free pigs, gene writing, skin microbiome engineering) that have produced important impact (>18,000 citations, 3 companies developing therapies, patents licensed to leading companies) and he is currently developing new principles for biological engineering and synthetic evolution. He is an EMBO YI and member of Academia Joven de España. He has been recognized as 'Highly Cited Researcher' (2019); and with the National Research Award to the young talent (2018), the August Pi i Sunyer Award (2021) and the National Research Award Ángela Ruiz Robles (2022).