Salvador Macip

Salvador Macip (Blanes, Girona, 1970) has a doctorate in Medicine from the Universidad de Barcelona. He is a researcher and a writer. He moved to New York in 1998 to work as a researcher of molecular bases of cancer at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Since 2008, he continues his research at the University of Leicester (UK), where he directs the group of cell death mechanisms and is a professor of the Biochemistry Department.

He has published several books, both for adult readers and children.

Among his YA and Children books, special mention should be made to Ullals, written with Sebastià Roig, Joaquim Ruyra Award 2009, or Hipnofòbia, Carlemany Award 2012;  Sóc un animal series with Lluís Llort and Sergi Cámara, the Els fills de la setena onada series or Herba negra cowritten with Ricard Ruiz Garzón (Ramon Muntaner Award, 2016). In his aim for working with other authors, he has recently written Doble o mortal with Elisenda Roca and La maleta de la memòria with Àngels Bassas. With Dins la capsa meravellosa, illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga, Macip keeps making science easy and exciting for first readers

In 2019 he publishes Els finals no arriben mai de sobte, probably his most personal literary work for adult readers.

In the field of popular science, Immortals i perfectes, Jugar a ser déus, written with Chris Willmott for which they deserved the European Prize for Scientific Disclosure or 100 preguntes sobre el càncer. His latest contribution to the bioethical debate is Will We Live Forever, 4 hands written again with Willmott.

Usual in four-hand works, years after Herba Negra was awarded (2016), the MacipGarzón tandem returns to the bookstores with Janowitz, a novel where nothing is what it seems. Together with the researcher Manel Esteller, they have signed one of the most original proposals on the current science fiction scene, Un dia la porta s'obrirà (One Day the Door Will Open), in Pagès Editors. And now, with Àngels Bassas, they publish Doble vida (Double Life, Columna), a story with two versions.

With the Covid-19 crisis, Macip becomes one of the reference scientist at a national and international level, and contributes with two key works on the subject: the reissue of his great book on viruses and pandemics, Modern Epidemics, already converted in a classic and internationally translated; and the short essay Lessons From a Pandemic. Ideas to face planetary health challenges, a lucid and didactic analysis on the management of the pandemic that offers the keys to face future health crisis.

Still in the field of essays, in 2022 he published What Makes Us Human? (Arcàdia) where he analyses the human condition through what he calls Rationalist Biohumanism and in 2023, again in collaboration with Dr. Manel Esteller, he reveals the keys to living longer and better in The Secrets of Eternal Life (Grijalbo). In 2024 he expands his contribution to the concept of Rationalist Biohumanism with Life at the Extremes, an essay also published in Arcàdia.