Plácido Navas Lloret (born 5 October 1952) is a Spanish Professor of Cell Biology in the Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology at the Pablo de Olavide University in Sevilla, Spain. From 2002 to 2012, Professor Navas served as a board member of the International Coenzyme Q10 Association; since 2013, he has been the chairman of the association. Professor Navas' primary research interests include Coenzyme Q biosynthesis and biological functions, Coenzyme Q10 deficiency, plasma membrane structure and function, oxidative stress, lipophilic antioxidants, aging processes, and the mitochondria.
Early education and career Professor Navas earned his Master of Science degree in biology in 1976 and his Ph.D. in cell biology in 1978, both at the University of Sevilla. During the period 1977 – 1984, Professor Navas worked as associate professor at the University of Córdoba and the University of Sevilla.
Fulbright Fellowship From 1984 to 1986, he was a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship scholar at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he studied and worked with Professor D. James Morré and Professor Fred L. Crane, the researcher who had discovered Coenzyme Q10 at the Institute of Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, in 1957.
Academic positions In the period from 1987 to 1997, Professor Navas served at the University of Córdoba alternately as Head of the Cell Biology Department and as Vice-Chancellor for Research. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Vice-president for Research at the Pablo de Olavide University in Sevilla. From 1995 to 2000, he also served as adjunct professor in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University. As a professor of cell biology at the Pablo de Olavide University in Sevilla, Professor Navas has conducted and published research studies on the biological functions and clinical effects of Coenzyme Q10. He has supervised over 20 Ph.D. dissertations.
Research on Coenzyme Q10
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