David del Álamo received his PhD in developmental biology at the Severe Ochoa Center for Molecular Biology in Madrid and postdoctoral training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Dr. del Alamo was the head of the EMBO Fellowship Programme, scientific editor for The EMBO Journal, EMBO reports and Review Commons, and scientific consultant for The Journal of Cell Biology and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.