Coordenador/Principal Investigator (PI)

Gustavo J Santos obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil. He next did a postdoc at the Endocrine Pancreas and Metabolism Lab, at UNICAMP and obtained a full-time job as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil. He is now Head of the Department of Physiological Sciences and leader of the Islet Biology and Metabolism Lab (I.B.M. Lab). The major objective of his group is to dissect the mechanism behind pancreatic β-cell maturation to develop strategies to improve hPSC-β cell function to make hPSC-β transplantation more feasible.