Juan José Rojas

Juan José Rojas

Dr. Juan José Rojas is currently a Principal Investigator at IDIBELL-Universitat de Barcelona and he is an expert in cancer immunotherapies and oncolytic viruses. He obtained his PhD at ICO-IDIBELL in 2010, working on improving the selectivity of oncolytic adenoviruses. Later, during his postdoctoral experience at The University of Pittsburgh, USA, his research turned to exploiting the immunotherapeutic potential of oncolytic Vaccinia viruses. In 2015 he accepted a Junior Principal Investigator position at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany), where he focused on developing vectors with capacity to activate immunogenic tumor cell death. Then, he was honored with a “Ramón y Cajal” contract to establish his own research group at IDIBELL-UB.