Santiago Grisolía García was born in Valencia in 1923. Doctor and biochemist.

After graduating in Medicine from the University of Valencia, with the extraordinary career prize, in 1944, he completed his doctoral thesis in Madrid in 1949. Between 1945 and 1946 he was awarded a scholarship to expand his studies in the department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology at the University of New York.

A year later he was assistant to the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago and, from 1948 to 1954, deputy researcher at the Physiology Chemistry Chair of the University of Wisconsin and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the University of Kansas , whose direction he later assumed. In 1977, he returned to Spain as director of the Institute of Citological Investigations of Valencia. In 1979 he was elected academic of the Royal Academy of Pharmacy of Madrid and, in 1980, secretary of the Valencian Foundation for Advanced Studies.

His research has focused on the topic of proteins, especially their performance in cellular components, in the production of monoclonal antibodies, in fetal alcohol syndrome and in the toxicity of the ammonium with various reagents, others. He has published more than four hundred scientific works, and around thirty informative articles, developing an enormous teaching and research work over many years in many European and American countries.

Santiago Grisolía is president of the Committee for Scientific Coordination. He has been nominated to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry several times and was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research for the best research in related fields of Biochemistry and Pharmacology.