Salvador Macip (Girona, 1970) has a doctorate in Medicine from the Universitat de Barcelona. He is a researcher and a writer. He moved to New York in 1998 to work as a researcher of molecular bases of cancer at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Since 2008, he continues his research at the University of Leicester (UK), where he directs the group of cell death mechanisms and is a professor of the Biochemistry Department. He has published several books, both for adult readers and children. He is the author of successful popular science books such as Immortals i perfectes, Jugar a ser déus, written with Chris Willmott for which they deserved the European Prize for Scientific Disclosure. He has written essays to contribute on public debates on bioethical issues such as Will We Live Forever, with Willmott. With the Covid-19 crisis, Macip becomes one of the reference scientists at a national and international level, and contributes with two key works on the subject: the reissue of his great book on viruses and pandemics, Modern Epidemics, already converted in a classic and internationally translated; and the short essay Lessons From a Pandemic. Ideas to face planetary health challenges, a lucid and didactic analysis on the management of the pandemic. What Makes Us Humans? is his last book, wherein he coins the concept rationalist biohumanism to discover the essence of humanity through scientific method.
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