Dr. Vicente Micol (1963, Lérida, Spain) is the head of the research group “Design and Development of Bioactive Molecules” at the Institute of Research, Development and Innovation of Health Biotechnology” (IDiBE) of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH). He obtained his PhD at the University of Murcia (Spain) on biomembranes and made his postdoctoral research at the Division of Biology of CALTECH (Pasadena, CA) in mitochondrial diseases. Currently he is Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UMH and holds the position of Vice Rector for International Relations since June 2015. His research group is focused on the biological activity and mechanism-of-action of plant polyphenols and their application to alleviate human chronic diseases such as cancer, obesity and non-communicable diseases using cell and animal models and human trials. The group has also an intense activity on technology transfer and services to companies belonging to areas such as food market, functional beverages, nutraceuticals and dermocosmetics. Founding member of several spin-off and technology-based companies, two of them focused on nutraceuticals (Nutracitrus and Mitra SolTech), one of them focused on advance microbiome technologies (Innovation Labo Technologies) and another one on efficacy assays for cosmetics (Ilice Effitech). Summary of his scientific achievements (updated in 2023): 18 national/international competitive projects as principal researcher and 10 as a part of the research team; Participation in 85 contracts (54 as principal researcher and 31 as a part of the research team); 38 service provisions and 7 patents or Know-how transfer license agreement; 190 indexed scientific articles (SCOPUS), 180 scientific communications to congresses, 2 National Research Awards, director of 16 PhD thesis, H-index of 52/65 (SCOPUS/ Google Academics), 337 co-authors and 7665 citations (January 2023).
Education
- PhD, University of Murcia (-)
- , California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) (-)
Research Interests
Keywords:
polyphenols active compounds antimicrobials metabolism cancer obesity
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