Francisco J. Blanco

Francisco Jose Blanco is a structural biologist working as Principal Investigator at the National Center for Oncology Research ( [http://www.cnio.es/es/programas/prog201.asp] ) 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 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7634098&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum] , a universal protein motif; and the analysis of the folding pathway of the SH3 domain from the α-spectrin protein [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9837733&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum] . His 33 structural biology papers listed in Web of Science have been cited over 2000 times, giving him an h-index of at least 25. [Web of Science, accessed July 7, 2008 (search limited to structural biology papers).]

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[http://www.cnio.es/ing/sr/docs/07/02%20Structural%20Biology%20and%20Biocomputing%20Programme/02%20Nuclear%20Magnetic%20Resonance/50004292.pdf Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Group] by Francisco Blanco