José María Carazo
Jose Maria Carazo studied Physics at University of Granada, Spain, and obtained his PhD in Biology at University Autonoma.
After the post-doc period at Wadsworth Center of the NYS Department of Health (USA) with Nobel Laureate Prof. Joachim Frank, he joined the National Center of Biotechnology as
head of the Biocomputing Unit. His experience is on the methods development area, contributing to open new areas in the cryoEM field, such as the
successful family of Maximum Likelihood algorithms (in the period developed in Madrid from 2007 to 2011) or the very much used EMDataBank (started from the European Union project “Bioimage”, that he Coordinated from 1996 to 1999).
On the technology transfer front, he founded the spin-off “Integromics”, winner of the first National Prize of La Caixa Emprendedor XXI (2007) and the Frost & Sullivan award to the Most Innovative Bioinformatics Company in Europe (2008). Integromics was acquired by the US multinational Perkin-Elmer in 2014. He currently directs the Spanish Center of the European Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology Instruct-ERIC.