Department: Bioquímica y Biología Molecular

Area: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Email: alvarezrangel@uniovi.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Oviedo with the thesis Vectores de expresión de cdnas genómicos de rabbit vesivirus (rav) y análisis de su funcionalidad como clones infectivos 2015. Supervised by Dr. Kevin P. Dalton, Dr. José Francisco Parra Fernández.

Ángel L. Álvarez is an assistant professor of Biochemistry at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oviedo (Spain). After receiving a BSc degree in Microbiology (2005) and a MSc in Virology (2007) at the University of Havana (Cuba), he obtained a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo (2015). Previous positions include an Instructor appointment at the University of Havana (2005-2009) and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) (2016-2019). He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), American Society for Virology (ASV), World Society for Virology (WSV), the Spanish Society for Virology (SEV) and the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM). His current research concerns the molecular biology of virus replication, virus-host interactions, and virus reverse genetics, with a focus in the molecular basis of gammaherpesvirus-induced oncogenic transformation and the search for novel antiviral strategies.