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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 Immunology and director of The Wanek Family Project for Type 1 Diabetes within the Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism Research Institute.
Dr. Alberto Pugliese is nPOD’s Executive Co-Director, Chair of the review committee, and Principal Investigator of the Helmsley Charitable Trust George S. Eisenbarth nPOD Award for Team Science; he is available to discuss new ideas and will gladly offer guidance to prospective applicants.
Dr. Pugliese also leads several research projects at the University of Miami: 1) studies on diabetes recurrence in pancreas transplant recipients (with Dr. George Burke); 2) studies of IL-2 as a novel treatment for islet autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes (with Drs. Tom Malek and Jay Skyler); 3) studies to identifying novel microRNA biomarkers for ...
Pugliese is dedicated to advancing type 1 diabetes research through scientific excellence, open collaboration, and the training of new investigators. For the last 25 years, he has studied type 1 diabetes from the preclinical period to the clinical diagnosis, and afterwards, in the setting of transplantation.
Apr 21, 2022 · Alberto Pugliese, M.D. Dr. Pugliese is the J. Enloe and Eugenia J. Dodson Chair in Diabetes Research, professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology, and deputy director for immune tolerance at the Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Congratulations to Alberto Pugliese, MD, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Diabetes Research Institute, and Co-Executive Director of the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD), on this notable award!
“Incidentally,” says Alberto Pugliese, MD, co-executive director of nPOD, “that is the pancreas that everybody wants [to study]. We have a few of those, but by necessity, we have a limited supply.”
