biology medicine regeneration pluripotent stem cells reprpgramming genetics panish scientist

2. Who is he?
• 1960, Hellín-Albacete
• Bachelor’s degree in
Pharmacy and Science,
Master’s degree in
Pharmacology and Ph.D.
in Biochemistry and
Pharmacology
• Salk Institute for
Biological Studies
• William Clinton
Presidential Award, the
Pew Scholar Award, the
Gold Medal of the Junta
Castilla-La Mancha, and
the Roger Guillemin
Endowed Nobel Chair

3. PROBLEM APPROACH
But….What does he do?
AND
Pluripotent
Steam Cells
Reaserchers first
need stem cells
reprogramming
protocol
stem cells from
embryos
tedious genetic
manipulations
improved
switch cells from
one type to another
type
new ways to alter
the genes inside
stem cells
heal infarcted hearts
without cell
transplantation
reprogramming
technologies to
encourage
regeneration in
living animals

4. INNOVATIONS
AND DISCOVERIES
new type of stem cell that allowed him to develop the first reliable
method for integrating human stem cells into an animal embryo
tied the aging process to the heterochromatin, a discovery that could
lead to methods of preventing and treating age-related diseases
technique in mice to eliminate mitochondrial mutations from eggs or
early embryos

5. LAB: http://belmonte.salk.edu/
Paula Jiménez Güiza