Roberto Ricardo Grau

Biography:

Dr. Roberto Grau is a biochemist who began his studies in the School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy of Rosario National University (UNR), Rosario-Argentina. He completed his PhD in the UNR studying the regulation of lipid synthesis during cold-shock response and sporulation in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. He performed his postdoctoral studies in molecular biology of bacterial sporulation in The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Department of Experimental and Molecular Medicine at San Diego, California, USA. Roberto has obtained many national and international awards, and financial funding from government agencies and private companies, during his 39 years of research on Bacillus subtilis and other spore-formers. He has published more than 45 original papers in reputed journals, directed dozens of graduate and PhD thesis, formed more than fifty professional groups in science, visited many universities and research institutes around the globe (France, Spain, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, U.S.A., U.K.), founded and/or catalyzed the creation of half-dozen biotechnological companies, including Kyojin S.A. He was professor of Microbiology in the UNR during 41 years, Pew Latin American Fellow (San Francisco, USA), a Fulbright International Scholar (Washington DC, USA), and head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory on Spore-Forming Bacteria in Rosario-Argentina until March 2024. Now he is CEO and head of R & D of Kyojin S.A. (www.kyojin.com.ar).Dr. Roberto Grau is a biochemist who began his studies in the School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy of Rosario National University (UNR), Rosario-Argentina. He completed his PhD in the UNR studying the regulation of lipid synthesis during cold-shock response and sporulation in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. He performed his postdoctoral studies in molecular biology of bacterial sporulation in The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Department of Experimental and Molecular Medicine at San Diego, California, USA. Roberto has obtained many national and international awards, and financial funding from government agencies and private companies, during his 39 years of research on Bacillus subtilis and other spore-formers. He has published more than 45 original papers in reputed journals, directed dozens of graduate and PhD thesis, formed more than fifty professional groups in science, visited many universities and research institutes around the globe (France, Spain, Germany, India, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, U.S.A., U.K.), founded and/or catalyzed the creation of half-dozen biotechnological companies, including Kyojin S.A. He was professor of Microbiology in the UNR during 41 years, Pew Latin American Fellow (San Francisco, USA), a Fulbright International Scholar (Washington DC, USA), and head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory on Spore-Forming Bacteria in Rosario-Argentina until March 2024. Now he is CEO and head of R & D of Kyojin S.A. (www.kyojin.com.ar).