Igor Tascón

Igor Tascón is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow group leader of the Membrane Transport Mechanisms laboratory. His research focuses on unraveling the mechanisms of solute transport across biological membranes involved in human disease. Igor is an expert in employing electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the structure of transmembrane complexes, from small membrane protein transporters to membrane macromolecular complexes. Before joining the IBF in 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow two years at Helsinki University working on tyrosine kinase receptors and protein engineering for NMR studies; and four years at Goethe Frankfurt University working on the function and structure of K⁺ transporters, and investigating the use of membrane-mimicking tools to stabilize membrane proteins. He received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, a Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, and a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).