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Extraordinary seminar by Bernat Soria on 19 February

  • February 17th, 2016
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The researcher will present his conference ‘Cell Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus: how far are we?’ at the Valencia Biomedicine Institute with free entry.

The researcher Bernat Soria will give an extraordinary seminar at the Valencia Biomedicine Institute on Friday 19 February at 10:30 h. It will take place at the Domingo Barettino Fraile Assembly Hall and the entry is free: it does not requires registration and will be free until full capacity. 

At the conference ‘Cell Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus: how far are we?’, Bernat Sorial will talk about his long career investigating diabetes and the key significance of this disease in the Spanish society. Diabetes is a chronicle disease produced due to the pancreas does not synthesise the quantity of insulin the body needs; it creates inferior quality insulin or it cannot use it efficiently. Insulin is segregated by the pancreas and its function is to maintain the appropriate values of blood glucose: people who suffer from diabetes have an excess of blood glucose (hyperglycaemia) because insulin is not distributed properly.

This conference will focus on the last novelties in research related to diabetes. Soria will explain the evolution of research on this disease and the last advances with stem cells. His team of researchers was pioneer at a global level in obtaining cells producers of insulin from stem cells of embryonic origin. You can read an abstract of the conference here.

Doctor in Medicine, Bernat Soria (Carlet, Valencia, 1951) was coordinator of the area of Physiology of the National Agency for Assessment and Forecasting and the European Network for Embryonic Stem Cells from 1991 to 1994 and full university professor of Physiology of the Pablo de Olavide University. Awarded with the prestigious Prix Galien Award for the Best Research Work in 2005, he also directed the Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), to which he has come back after his experience as a Minister for Health, post he occupied from 2007 to 2009. Nowadays he works at this centre at the department of stem cells, reprogramming and cell differentiation.

Soria got pancreatic cells producers of insulin on 2000 thanks to mice stem cells and after one year he got them from stem cells of embryonic origin. The seminar will focus on his studies on diabetes and also on the importance of this disease that around four million people in Spain suffer.

View the poster of the seminar here and find more information on Bernat Soria here.