Esteban Ballestar, Ph.D.
Epigenetics and Immune Disease Group, Leader
Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC)
Ctra de Can Ruti, Camí de les Escoles s/n
08916 Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 935572800 ext. 4250
E-mail:
eballestar@carrerasresearch.orgEsteban Ballestar is leader of the Epigenetics and Immune Disease Laboratory at the Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC) in Barcelona, Spain. There, he investigates the mechanisms involved in targeting epigenetic changes, mainly DNA methylation, in immune cells, with a particular emphasis in immune-related diseases (autoimmune and autoinflammatory syndromes, and primary immunodeficiencies). Ballestar obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Valencia, and has also worked at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA), the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona. Author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed manuscripts in high rank journals, he is member of a number of international scientific societies and reviewer for many journals and national and international funding agencies. In 2018, Ballestar was elected corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
