Francisco J. Blanco

Francisco Jose Blanco is a structural biologist working as Principal Investigator at the National Center for Oncology Research in Madrid, Spain. His research utilizes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to characterize the three dimensional structure of proteins involved in cancer progression. His major contributions to the field of protein folding include the study of the formation and stability of isolated β-hairpin structures, a universal protein motif; and the analysis of the folding pathway of the SH3 domain from the α-spectrin protein.