Dr. Kornblihtt is professor of molecular and cell biology at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also an investigator at the Institute of Physiology, Molecular Biology and Neurosciences (IFIBYNE) of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires and conducted postdoctoral studies in the United Kingdom at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He is the recipient of a Bernardo Houssay Prize from CONICET, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Antorchas Fellowship, and the Konex Platinum Prize in Cytology and Molecular Biology. In 2009 the city government of Buenos Aires recognized 25 citizens, including Professor Kornblihtt, for their contributions to the arts, science, education, health and society with the Medalla del Bicentenario, which commemorates Argentina's declaration of freedom from Spain 200 years ago. In 2011, he was elected as a foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences.

Kornblihtt is editor-in-chief of "Transcription", a member of several editorial boards, including that of the Reviewing Editors of Science, and a member of the scientific councils of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Italy) and the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo (Uruguay). He is currently president of the Argentine Society of Biochemistry.

Alberto Kornblihtt's research focuses on the regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms that couple the splicing and transcription machineries. His group studies how changes in the rate of transcriptional elongation and recruitment of splicing factors to the transcribing polymerase affect alternative splicing and contribute to the generation of multiple protein variants from a single gene.