Julio E. Celis

Julio E. Celis is a Chilean biochemist and pioneer in proteomics who conducted postdoctoral studies with Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He served as Secretary General of FEBS from 1999 to 2007, playing a key role in the creation of the European Research Council (ERC), and founded Molecular Oncology journal in 2006 to advance cancer research and science policy.