Juan Dominguez-Bendala, Ph.D.

Juan Domínguez-Bendala, Ph.D., is Director of Stem Cell Development for Translational Research at the Diabetes Research Institute.  

Before joining the DRI faculty, he worked at the Roslin Institute (Scotland, UK), known for the cloning of Dolly the sheep. Dr. Dominguez-Bendala obtained his PhD. there and acquired considerable experience in the areas of nuclear transfer, embryonic stem cells, embryo micromanipulation and state-of-the-art genetic engineering techniques.

Working in close collaboration with Luca Inverardi, Chris Fraker and Ricardo Pastori, Dr. Domínguez-Bendala is currently involved in several projects that focus on the use of embryonic stem cells to obtain pancreatic islets, in the hopes that these newly developed cells could one day be transplanted into patients with type I diabetes.

He is also currently working on new methods for long-term culture and regeneration of pancreatic stem cells.