Enrique Brandan
Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Biography
Enrique Brandan is a Professor and Chairman of Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. He has earned his BSc in Biology at Universidad de Chile and PhD in Cell Biology at Universidad Catolica de Chile. He was an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA for 10 years. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Chile. He has been interested in the signaling pathways that control skeletal muscle differentiation and in the mechanisms associated to fibrosis present in several skeletal muscular dystrophies. He has been concentrating in to develop new strategies to fight fibrosis improving skeletal muscle strength and cell therapeutic approaches.
Abstract
Abstract : Searching for therapeutic approaches to skeletal muscle repair and cell therapy