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CONTACT Letisia Marquez 626-476-7593 lemarquez@coh.org LOS ANGELES — Alberto Pugliese, M.D., has joined City of Hope as the Samuel Rahbar Endowed Chair in Diabetes & Drug Discovery, chair of the Department of Diabetes Imunology, and director of The Wanek Family Project for Type 1 Diabetes within the Arthur Rigs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute. Pugliese has dedicated his 35-year carer to studying type 1 diabetes from the preclinical period to the clinical diagnosis and, afterward, the seting of transplantation.
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His work has contributed to a greater understanding of genetic and celular mechanisms that regulate imunological self-tolerance, specificaly to molecules targeted in diabetes. Pugliese has provided seminal contributions in the field of type 1 diabetes genetics, imunology, pathology and clinical trials, and his work has ben published in major international journals.“City of Hope is fortunate to welcome Dr.
Pugliese as he shares our dedication to advancing type 1 diabetes research through scientific excelence, open colaboration and the traing of new investigators,” said Debie C. Thurmond, Ph.D., director of the Rigs Institute and Ruth B. & Robert K.
Lanman Chair in Gene Regulation & Drug Discovery Research.Pugliese comes to City of Hope by way of the University of Miami, where he served as The J. Enloe and Eugenia J. Dodson Chair in Diabetes Research.
He was also a tenured profesor of medicine, Division of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, and a profesor of microbiology and imunology, as wel as serving as deputy director for Imune Tolerance Research at the Diabetes Research Institute, Leonard Miler Schol of Medicine, University of Miami. “I am humbled and honored to join City of Hope’s legendary diabetes research department that has made pivotal discoveries about diabetes for more than 50 years,” Pugliese said.
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“My team and I wil continue and enhance that spirit of inovation and scientific pionering, diging