DrHernando Del Portillo

PRESIDENT:
Grupo EspañoL de Investigación e Innovación en vesículas Extracelulares – GEIVEX
(http://geivex.org)

COORDINATOR:
Network of excellency in research and innovation on exosomes – REDiEX (http://rediex.org)

FOUNDER AND CSO:
INNOVEX THERAPEUTICS SL (http://innovexther.com)

AFFILIATION:
ICREA at IS Global Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain and IGTP Institut d’Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS:
Ctra. de Can Ruti. Camí de les Escoles, s/n, 08916 BADALONA (Barcelona), Spain
phone +34 690737229, fax +34 93 312 9410, e-mail hernandoa.delportillo@isglobal.org

EDUCATION:
- June 1985: Ph.D. Biology, University of Georgia. Athens, GA, USA. Professor Raymond T.
Damian, Advisor
Thesis: Immunochemical analysis of baboon IgG subclasses.
- June 1981: M.Sc. Biology, Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem, USA. Dr. Ronald V.
Dimock, Advisor.
Thesis: Host-induced negative phototaxis in the association Unionicola formosa-Anodonta sp.
- December 1977: B.Sc. Biology and Chemistry. Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia.
Thesis: Karyotype of Aotus griseimembra.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2015: ICREA at IS Global Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clínic - Universitat de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and IGTP Institut d’Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona,Spain
2007-2015: ICREA Research Professor, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research– CRESIB
2001-2006: Associate Professor, Dept. of Parasitology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo,Brazil.
1991-2001: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Parasitology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo,Brazil.
1987-1990: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Unité d'Immuno-parasitologie, Institut Pasteur, France. Dr.
Peter H. David, Advisor. Research Area: Molecular Biology of Plasmodium vivax
1985-1987: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Parasitology, NYU
Medical Center, New York, N.Y., Dr. Vincenzo Enea, Advisor. Research Area: Molecular
Biology of Plasmodium falciparum

SCHOLARSHIPS:
1998-1999: Visiting Professor Fellowship from the University of Heidelberg.
1985-1990: Fellowship from the World Health. Organization (WHO).
1981-1985: Ph.D. Research Assistantship. As part of a National Institutes of Health Grant given to Professor Raymond T. Damian.

TRAINING ABROAD:
1998- 1999: Prof. Herman Bujard. Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg.
Sabbatical year (March – October)
1997: Prof. Herman Bujard. Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg. Expression
of malarial proteins in a heterologous inducible tTA system (May).
1995: Dr. Andy P. Waters, Department of Parasitology, University of Leiden. Transfection of Malaria Parasites (July -October).

PATENTS
- Title: Exosomas y su uso como vacunas.
No solicitud: P201530775
OEPM Madrid
- Title: Exosomes derived from reticulocytes infected with Plasmodium sp., method for
obtaining them and uses thereof.
International Application Number: PCT/EP2010/070800.
International Publication Number: WO 2011/080271 A2

CONSULTANT:
Consultant CORPOGEN- Colômbia, HTP methods for the screening of antimalarial compounds Consultant of viral vaccines. Biomanguinhos Rio de Janeiro.
Consultant OPAS Drug resistance in the Brazilian Amazon Scientific Advisory Board Malaria Resource and Research Center (MR4)