Jose L. Garcia-Perez, Ph. D.
Garcia-Perez is an emerging Principal Investigator that studies how Transposable Elements impact the genome of human stem cells.
He has worked in this field for more than 10 years and have published over 30 articles (the total includes articles, reviews, book chapters, perspectives, and a thesis).
He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Granada-Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in 2003, where he studied under Dr. Manuel Carlos Lopez the mobilization of repeated DNA in Trypanosomes. In late 2003, he joined the University of Michigan Medical School (Department of Human Genetics, Lab of Dr. John V. Moran) as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2007, he was promoted to Research Investigator in the University of Michigan, and since late 2008 he is a Group Leader in Spain (at Genyo, Pfizer-University of Granada-Andalusian Government Center for Genomics and Oncological Research, Granada). In January 2012, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute appointed him as an International Early Career Scientist.
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