Dr. Tejero received his degree in Organic Chemistry at the University of Zaragoza, Spain in 1998 and earned his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Zaragoza in 2004 with the thesis “Redesign of the coenzyme specificity of the ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase from Anabaena PCC 7119” under Prof. Carlos Gómez-Moreno and Dr. Milagros Medina. He moved to the United States in 2005 as research fellow at the lab of Dr. Dennis Stuehr at the Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute. His work there focused on the structure and function of nitric oxide synthases. He joined Dr. Gladwin lab at the University of Pittsburgh Vascular Medicine Institute as a research associate in May, 2009. Dr Tejero is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

Research Interest

Dr. Tejero’s research is focused on the biology of heme proteins. His main research goals include: i) to understand and characterize the chemical and kinetic features of the reactions of nitrite with hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytoglobin and neuroglobin, ii) to elucidate the cytoprotective mechanisms of the six-coordinate globins neuroglobin and cytoglobin, and iii) the development of heme-based antidotes for carbon monoxide poisoning.