Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhDF. Palmer Weber Medical Research Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology – School of Medicine, University of Virginia – Charlottesville, VA, USA
Adjunct Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mildred Hajek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Distinguished Chair in Honor of President Truman G. Blocker, Jr., University of Texas Medical Branch – Galveston, Texas, USA

From 1990 to 2014 Dr. Garcia-Blanco was at Duke University where he was the Charles D. Watts Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Medicine, and Director of the Center for RNA Biology. He is an internationally recognized expert in RNA biology and virology and is an author of more than 190 scientific publications and has been continuously NIH funded since the early 1990s. Dr. Garcia-Blanco has mentored twenty doctoral students and forty postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, he has been the founder of Intronn Inc. (VIRxSYS, Rockville, MD, USA), Veri-Q Inc. (part of Proteome Sciences plc, Cobham, UK), Singapore Advanced Biologics Pte Ltd (SABio), Autoimmunity Biologic Solutions, Inc. (Galveston, TX), and Emervax (Galveston, TX). Professor Garcia-Blanco has served as a member of Scientific Advisory Board for European Alternative Splicing Network of Excellence (EU), National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council (NIH, USA), and a Trustee of the Puerto Rico Trust for Science, Research and Technology. For ten years he was a member of the Council of Scientific Advisers for the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (United Nations). He is a member of the editorial board of RNA and Current Opinion in Virology. Dr. Garcia-Blanco was a Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholar (1997-2002), elected to the Association of American Physicians (2011), fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2013), and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022).

Dr. Garcia-Blanco has dedicated his career to study how RNA-protein interactions regulate gene expression in cells and viruses. These studies have focused on several areas of high biomedical importance and focus on the intersection between RNA biology and immunity.

Phone: 434-243-6093
Email: marianogb@virginia.edu
Link: https://mic.med.virginia.edu/faculty?facbio=1&id=1717927