ICREA Research Professor
Marco Milán obtained his degree in Biology in 1991 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and his PhD in 1995 from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in the laboratory of Antonio García-Bellido. In 1997, he joined the laboratory of Stephen Cohen, where he became Staff Scientist three years later at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg. Since 2003, he holds an ICREA Research Professorship and leads the Development and Growth Control Laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona. From 2007 to 2017, he was Coordinator of the Cell and Developmental Biology Programme, and since 2018, he is Coordinator of the Mechanisms of Disease Programme. In 2007, he was elected member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme, and in 2023 EMBO Member. In 2010, Marco Milán was Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and from 2020 to 2024 Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona. He is Vice-President of the European Society of Drosophila. Since the beginning, his lab has been using Drosophila to dissect, at the genetic and molecular level, the role of morphogens, systemic hormones and signaling molecules in the regulation of tissue growth during normal development and regeneration. In 2012, his lab developed a Drosophila epithelial model of chromosomal instability, a hallmark of human cancer, where the molecular mechanisms driving emerging, tumor-like, cellular behaviors have been identified. His lab has also used Drosophila to understand neurodegeneration, aging and oncogene-driven tumorigenesis.Currently, his lab is actively working on the impact of aneuploidy at the cellular and organismal level.