Joan Ferré Manzanero, Professor of Genetics, has been nominated director of the University Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BioTecMed) of the Universitat de València. The institute was set up last August, after spending eight years' operating as an Interdisciplinary Research Structure (ERI), in which Joan Ferré worked as a coordinator since its creation. Ferré was elected director of the new institute on 26 November during the BioTecMed Council meeting.
