Anxo Vidal holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology. From 1998 to 2003 he was a postdoc at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2002 Anxo was ranked no. 2 nationwide in the area of Physiology in the “Ramon y Cajal” Program. Since 2008, Anxo is an Associate Professor of Physiology in the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Anxo was the recipient of the 2006 Novartis Award in Endocrine Tumor Pathology. Principal investigator of competitive national and international grants, he is an author of more than 60 international publications in high impact journals (Nature Neurosci, Cell Stem Cell, Nature Commun, Nature Metab…), with an h-index of 25 (Scopus, 30/11/2021) and a relative citation ratio of 1,37 (iCite, 30/11/2021). He has supervised 12 PhD thesis.