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LOS ANGELES — Alberto Pugliese, M.D., has joined City of Hope arsenic the Samuel Rahbar Endowed Chair successful Diabetes & Drug Discovery, seat of the Department of Diabetes Immunology, and manager of The Wanek Family Project for Type 1 Diabetes wrong the Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute.  

Pugliese has dedicated his 35-year vocation to studying benignant 1 diabetes from the preclinical play to the objective diagnosis and, afterward, the mounting of transplantation. His enactment has contributed to a greater knowing of familial and cellular mechanisms that modulate immunological self-tolerance, specifically to molecules targeted successful diabetes. Pugliese has provided seminal contributions successful the tract of benignant 1 diabetes genetics, immunology, pathology and objective trials, and his enactment has been published successful large planetary journals.

“City of Hope is fortunate to invited Dr. Pugliese arsenic helium shares our dedication to advancing benignant 1 diabetes probe done technological excellence, unfastened collaboration and the grooming of caller investigators,” said Debbie C. Thurmond, Ph.D., manager of the Riggs Institute and Ruth B. & Robert K. Lanman Chair successful Gene Regulation & Drug Discovery Research.

Pugliese comes to City of Hope by mode of the University of Miami, wherever helium served arsenic The J. Enloe and Eugenia J. Dodson Chair successful Diabetes Research. He was besides a tenured prof of medicine, Division of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, and a prof of microbiology and immunology, arsenic good arsenic serving arsenic lawman manager for Immune Tolerance Research astatine the Diabetes Research Institute, Leonard Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. 

“I americium humbled and honored to articulation City of Hope’s legendary diabetes probe section that has made pivotal discoveries astir diabetes for much than 50 years,” Pugliese said. “My squad and I volition proceed and heighten that tone of innovation and technological pioneering, digging deeper into the secrets of genetics and the immune system, metabolism and diabetic complications.” 

A autochthonal of Italy, Pugliese earned his aesculapian grade and postdoctoral probe fellowship astatine the University of Palermo. He completed postdoctoral probe fellowships astatine that university, and past trained with the precocious George Eisenbarth astatine the Joslin Diabetes Center astatine Harvard Medical School and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes astatine the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. 

Pugliese is simply a champion of collaboration and team-science approaches, which has been recognized by the Helmsley Charitable Trust with the George S. Eisenbarth nPOD Award for Team Science.  He has served connected probe assistance reappraisal committees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the JDRF and different backing organizations internationally. He besides served arsenic seat of the American Diabetes Association’s Grant Review Panel. He has been a steering committee subordinate of the Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet, a objective proceedings web funded by the NIH, nether which auspices helium has chaired respective committees and initiatives. 

Pugliese is besides enforcement co-director of the JDRF Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD), a collaborative task that recovers tissues from organ donors with benignant 1 diabetes and distributes samples to investigators worldwide to enactment a broad knowing of the disease. 

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