I’m Dr. Javier Calvo, borned in 1964 in Spain. I’m M.D. and Ph.D., and specialist in Immunology.
During my residency training at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, I participated in several research
projects that led to the publication of more than 20 original articles published in international
journals and obtaining my doctoral thesis that deserved Extraordinary Doctoral Award from
the University of Barcelona. These projects are mainly focused on the study of membrane
CD5 molecule and include its biochemical, genetic and functional characterization. In all the
projects I have been involved conducting essential techniques of cell and molecular biology.
I’m currently working at the Blood and Tissue Bank of the Balearic Islands that was established
in 1999. Since the beginning of the activity of the Tissue Bank in June 1999 I was one of the
responsible for its operation. Currently, within the Tissue Bank are operating Osteotendinous
Tissue Bank (bone, tendons, meniscus), the Bank of Ocular Tissue (cornea, sclera, amniotic
membrane), the Human Milk Bank, a Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Unit, and the
Balearic Donor Cord Blood Program. It is worth noting my involvement in the implementation
of a laboratory of molecular biology applied to diagnosis analyzing the presence of different
genetic polymorphisms (HLA typing, hereditary hemochromatosis, Factor V Leiden, genetic
rearrangement in leukemias and lymphomas, etc.). Our laboratory was the responsible of
the HLA typing of the bone marrow donor registry in the balearic community in the period
2004-2013.
Recent projects in our lab focus on the preparation and characterization of mesenchymal stem
cells obtained from umbilical cord tissue and the preparation and analysis of demineralized
bone matrix from cortical bone.
