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Raya Chamorro, Ángel
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ICREA Research Professor at IBEC (Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya). Life & Medical Sciences
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Ángel Raya is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). He obtained an MD in 1990 from the University of Valencia, Spain and a PhD degree from the same university in 1995 for studies carried out at the Department of Physiology and at the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. He pursued postdoctoral training at the Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas (currently, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe) in Valencia, from 1995-2000. He then was a Research Associate (2000-2004) and a Senior Research Associate (2004-2006) in the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA. He returned to Spain in 2006 and was the Scientific Coordinator at the Center for Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona until 2009, when he joined the IBEC as Group Leader of the Control of Stem Cell Potency group.
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Research Interests
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Our research work aims to understand the tissue, cellular and molecular mechanisms that determine the regenerative response in certain species of vertebrates, as well as the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that control cellular reprogramming. This phenomenon provides a link between the traditional study of epimorphic regeneration and the induced pluripotency strategies of regenerative medicine.
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KeyWords
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Stem cells, pluripotency, regeneration, heart, cell differentiation
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