Curriculum vitae Fernando Goldbaum

NAME: Fernando Alberto Goldbaum NATIONALITY: Argentine PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: , 11-14-1960. PERSONAL ADDRESS: Araoz 2719 Buenos Aires (1425) Argentina LABORAL ADDRESS: Fundación Instituto Leloir, Av. Patricias Argentinas 435 (1405) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mail: [email protected] STUDIES 1980-1985 BIOCHEMIST School of . University of Buenos Aires 1988-1992 PhD in Biochemistry School of Biochemistry, University. of Buenos Aires "Production of monoclonal antibodies to characterize protein antigens of B.abortus". POST-DOCTORAL POSITION: Research associate at the Center for Advanced Research in (CARB), University of Maryland. 1993-1996. Director: Dr. Roberto J. Poljak. Field: "Three-dimensional structure and thermodynamics of antigen-antibody interactions"

PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS - President of the National Agency of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science Argentina 2013- - Director of Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET) 2012-2013 - Director of Leloir Institute, 2008-2011 - Member of the Research Program as Superior Researcher (Natl. Research Council, CONICET) - International Research Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2002-2011) - Director of the Molecular Immunology and Microbiology laboratory, Leloir Institute 2000- - Scientific Director of Inmunova SA 2007-2013 - Governor for Argentina of the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

TEACHING POSITIONS - Biological Chemistry Faculty, University of Buenos Aires, School of Exact Sciences 1998-2004 - Vice Director of the Biochemical Research Department, School of Exact Sciences 2001-2003

TRAINING OF HUMAN RESOURCES - Supervisor of 10 PhD students, who passed their theses with the highest grades - Supervisor of 4 PhD students currently finishing their theses.

PUBLICATIONS - Ninety-two (92) articles published in peer reviewed international journals - Twenty-four (24) articles published in the last five years. Average impact factor: 5.12 - H index since 1995: 23 Citations since 1995: 2016

PATENTS - Four patents deposited in national and international offices. GRANTS In the last 10 years the Molecular Immunology and Microbiology lab has received approximately 1,300,000 U$S dollars from national (ANPCyT, CONICET) and international (HHMI, NIH, DFG Germany) funding agencies.

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES - HHMI 5-year Latin America and Canada fellowship, 2002-2006. “The structure is related to protein immunogenicity” - Prize BIOTECH 2004, AMSUD/Pasteur. “BLS: a new platform for vaccine design” - Howard Hughes Medical Institute 5-year Latin America and Canada fellowship, 2007-2011. “Light-sensing and virulence in Brucella” - Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, 2008. “Light-sensing and virulence in Brucella” - Heberto Castillo Martinez Prize 2012 in the category latinoamerican researcher older than 45 years. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia del Distrito Federal de México. - Konex Prize 2013 to the most important one hundred researchers in the last decade in Argentina (2003-2012). Area Biotechnology. 1