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Juan A. Diez, Ph.D is a Research Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and works in the Pancreatic Development and Progenitor Cell Biology Program at the Diabetes Research Institute.
Dr. Diez’s research focus is to investigate the factors involved in pancreatic development and to create the conditions to generate functional islets from human embryonic stem cells.
He works closely with Dr. Helena Edlund to adapt her findings in mouse pancreas development to the human model.
Dr. Diez obtained his doctorate in biochemistry from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain in 1994.
He continued his postdoctoral education at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Great Britain and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Fl.
In 2001, he received the Ramon y Cajal award for young scientists from the Spanish Government and worked as a principal investigator at the Cancer Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Diez’s research interests include intercellular communication, autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes and cell signaling pathway in development and tumor progression.
His work in these areas has been published in peer-reviewed journals.
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