Juan Ramón Lacadena Calero (born 14 November 1934) is a Spanish agronomical engineer. Lacadena was born at

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

. He studied in the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros Agrónomos in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. He has been collaborator in CSIC, professor of

Genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

in the UCM, head of the Department of Genetics in the Universidad de La Laguna (1971) and in the UCM (1971–2005). He collaborated in the Sociedad Española de Genética (Secretary, 1973–1985; President, 1985–1990). He has made more than 100 papers and scientific monographs about chromosomal behaviour in cytogenetics and more than 80 publications about genetics and

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

. He was a member in the Comisión Nacional de Reproducción Humana Asistida (1997) and in the International Society of Bioethics (1997).

Partial bibliography

*''Genética Vegetal. Fundamentos de su Aplicación'' (1970) *''Genética'' (4ªed. 1988) *''Problemas de Genética para un Curso General'' (1988) *''Citogenética'' (1996) *''Genética: Conceptos fundamentales'' (1999) *''Genética y condición humana'' (1983) *''La Genética: Una narrativa histórico-conceptual'' (1986) *''Fe y Biología'' (2001) *''Genética y Bioética'' (2002).

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1934 births Living people People from Zaragoza Spanish engineers Spanish geneticists Academic staff of the University of La Laguna {{Spain-scientist-stub