Pere Santamaria
Chief Scientific Officer, Member of the Board of D
Board of Directors
Parvus Therapeutics
Canada
Biography
Dr. Santamaria holds both an MD and PhD from University of Barcelona, Spain, and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota prior to joining the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary as Assistant Professor in 1992. He is an internationally recognized immunologist specialized in T1D and a Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Chair of the Immunology Research Group at the Institute of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity, Julia McFarlane Chair in Diabetes Research, and Director of the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre, all in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Pere has received several honors and awards, including the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Senior Scholar, Scientist and Senior Scientist awards, the Canadian Diabetes Association Young Investigator award and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Scholar award and most recently the winner of the 2013 ASTech Foundation’s Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology award. He has published over 150 publications, many in high-impact journals, and he is a regularly invited speaker at national and international forums. He sits on the editorial board of a number of journals and numerous national and international grant review panels.
Research Interest
Microbiology
