Group Leader

Pedro Roda Navarro

proda@med.ucm.es Tlfno. 0034913941641 

Summary of professional career

• June 1995. Graduated in Biology in the Biology School of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

• January 2003. PhD in Biology in the Molecular Biology Unit, ‘Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain’ (MBU). Identification and molecular characterization of new genes coding for lectin-like receptors.

• From January 2003 to May 2004. Postdoctoral researcher in the MBU where he started the research about the organization of the cytotoxic NK cell immune synapse (cNK-IS).

• From June 2004 to December 2006. Research associate at the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge (UK) where he continued the research devised in Madrid about the cNK-IS.

• From January 2007 to March 2011. Research associate position at the Department of Systemic Cell Biology of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund (Germany). In this period, his research was focus on the characterization of tyrosine phosphorylation networks by using functional genomics and micro-spectroscopy techniques.

• From March 2011 to December 2011. Scientist staff at the National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) where he studies the intracellular traffic of the T cell Immunoglobulin and mucin-1 (Tim-1) during the T cell activation.

• From January 2012 until May 2018. ‘Ramón y Cajal’ tenure track position at the Department of Microbiology I (Immunology area) of the Faculty of Medicine in the UCM. We established a research group for studying the molecular dynamics underlying lymphocyte activation and effector function.

• From June 2018 until date. Associate Professor at the Department of Immunology, Ophthalmology and ENT of the Faculty of Medicine in the UCM. We are studying the molecular dynamics underlying lymphocyte activation and effector function.

 

PhD students

Adrián González Pinar email: adrgon15@ucm.es

Hired with our grant PID2023-147805NB-I00

• 2025-present: PhD student in biomedicine research at the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• 2024-2025: Master degree in Translational Medicine. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). School of medicine, Madrid (Spain). 
• 2020-2024: Degree in Biochemistry. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. School of Chemistry, Madrid (Spain).

 

Carlos Carrasco Padilla email: cacarr05@ucm.es

Comunidad de Madrid PhD fellow

Hired with our grant PID2020-115444GB-I00

• 2021-present: PhD student in biomedicine research at the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• 2020-2021: Master degree in Immunology research. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). School of medicine, Madrid (Spain). 
• 2016-2020: Degree in Biochemistry. Universidad de Extremadura. School of veterinary, Cáceres (Spain).