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Manuel Vázquez-Carrera
Associate Professor
University of Barcelona
Spain
Biography
Dr Manuel Vázquez-Carrera obtained his Pharmacy degree at the University of Barcelona in 1990 with A mark. In 1991 he got a grant FPI of the Generalitat de Catalunya (for the period 1991-1994) for young researchers. Since then he has been working, as a research student at the Department of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Barcelona. He finished his Ph.D. in December 1994. In 1995 Dr Vázquez-Carrera obtained a grant of the European Science Foundation for 1 year to perform a postdoctoral stage in the PPAR field at the Institut de Biologie Animale, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr. Walter Wahli. Currently, Dr. Vázquez-Carrera is a Lecturer in Pharmacology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona.
Research Interest
• Inflammation and insulin resistance • Experimental models of Metabolic Syndrome: the fructose-fed rat and senescence-related models in rodents. Molecular basis and drug activity. • Molecular basis of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle and modulation by drugs. • Molecular basis of cardiac hypertrophy: Role of PPARs and inflammation-related Transcription Factors.